The Yearling, ch1

Who is the author of The Yearling?

• Edith Wharton

• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

• Gertrude Stein

• Virginia Woolf

What genre of stories did Rawlings tell?

• all of these

• Florida fantasies

• speculative sensory science fiction

• realistic regional fiction

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Florida is a notoriously difficult ​ (a)   to capture in words, and writers often reduce the state to a ​ (b)   full of ​ (c)   and sand, or a mecca for theme park enthusiasts and ​ (d)   . However, at one point, Florida existed as a ​ (e)   just as wild and untamed as the western part of the United States, and Rawlings sought to show her readers this side of the southernmost state.

• swampland
• alligators
• retirees
• frontier
• region

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Rawlings lived here. Check all that apply!

• Florida

• Washington D.C.

• New York

• Kentucky

• Wisconsin

What is Jody's last name?

• Baxter

• Rawlings

• Marx

• none of these

Name Jody Baxter's father

The story begins in this month.

• January

• April

• June

• October

Jody ran off to play at the spring. What should he have been doing instead?

• Chopping wood

• Scrubbing the floor

• Hoeing the cornfield

• Milking Trixie

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What was frightened by Jody's scent?

• A raccoon

• A pregnant doe

• An opossum

• A dog

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What did Jody not do in the spring?

• Make a flutter mill

• Sleep

• Scare a frog

• Fish for grouper

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