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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the main practice of gopher tortoises that helps other types of forest animals to survive?
2. Indigo snakes have a four-month mating season once a year. When is it?
3. Though Janisse had never seen an indigo snake in the wild until she was an adult, her older friend Milton said that he had seen them before. In what context had he seen them?
4. What is the average amount of rainfall in Appling County, Georgia?
5. Until what year was the Altamaha River the only mode of transportation for settlers in Appling County?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were some elements of Frank's childhood that belie the poverty his family suffered during the aftershocks of the stock market crash in 1929?
2. What aspect of her parents' relationship did Janisse feel jealousy about?
3. What are the characteristics of the red-cockaded woodpecker that lead to it being such a good example of the fauna losses caused by the loss of the longleaf pine?
4. How did Lee Ada's father Arthur feel about Frank's and Lee Ada's decision to elope?
5. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?
6. What is the main characteristic present in indigo snakes that led to much of their endangered status, in addition to the fact that they use endangered gopher tortoises' burrows as shelter?
7. How does Janisse describe the type of knowledge she had by the time she left home versus the type of knowledge she lacked at that time?
8. How does the concept of determinism emerge in the final paragraph of the chapter entitled Poverty?
9. Rather than disciplining the children by spanking them or hurting them in any other way, what methods did Lee Ada use to get the children to behave?
10. How did Janisse feel about her mother when she was a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the irony within the scene in which Janisse brings home a botanist from college and he is so shocked by the state of the family's home and property that he locks himself in the bedroom, only coming out for meals. How does his disgust regarding Janisse's family home reflect what Janisse perceives to be the pervading reaction of the outside world when looking at people from her part of the country? And how does Janisse's father Frank's job as a salvage yard owner contrast with the botanist's view of the disarray he views as defining the family's situation?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the characterization methods the author uses in order to depict her father Frank's personality and worldview.
Essay Topic 3
Explain the significance of Janisse Ray's abject rejection of her great-grandfather Pun's advice to not "take more on your heart than you can shake off on your heels." How does her rejection of this maxim relate to the larger themes within the memoir?
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