Bean+Trees

Quiz  1. How does Taylor spend the money she earns working at the hospital? She buys a Volkswagon bug  2. How does Taylor acquire Turtle? A woman gives Turtle to Taylor  3. What bird symbolizes Turtle? All of the above  4. How do people eat in heaven, according to Estevan? By feeding each other with long spoons  5. Why does Mattie take her friends into the desert one evening in July? So that they can smell the rain  6. What signals Lou Ann’s growing sense of independence and confidence? All of the above  7. Why was Turtle vulnerable to the prowler in the park? Edna Poppy, her baby-sitter, is blind  8. What do Taylor and Estevan toss into the Lake o’ the Cherokees when they make their wishes? Beer pop-tops  9. What does Mattie have in her garden besides vegetables and flowers? Car tires  10. Of whom does Mattie remind Taylor? Alice Greer  11. How does Turtle get her name? She has a firm grip  12. What happens that causes Turtle to mutter her first sound? The car has to stop suddenly for a family of quail  13. How does Sandi from Burger Derby afford baby-sitting for her child? She takes advantage of the mall’s free day care  14. What are Alice Greer’s “head rights”? Her Cherokee blood  15. What does Taylor identify as a reason she would have to give up Turtle? Esperanza asking if she could keep Turtle  16. Who could be seen as Turtle’s tragic counterpart? Ismene <span class="body_text"> 17. What’s in the bottle that Granny Logan takes to Lou Ann? Tug Fork water <span class="body_text"> 18. What does Taylor avoid all through her years in Kentucky? Getting pregnant <span class="body_text"> 19. Where does Lou Ann end up working? At a salsa factory <span class="body_text"> 20. Of the following, who to the reader’s knowledge still goes by his or her original name? Lou Ann <span class="body_text"> 21. What allows Turtle’s successful adoption? Estevan and Esperanza pretend to be her biological parents <span class="body_text"> 22. Who is the patron saint of refugees? St. Christopher <span class="body_text"> 23. What does Taylor’s mother require of her before she leaves Kentucky? She has to learn about auto maintenance <span class="body_text"> 24. To what does Mattie compare her house? A bird sanctuary<span class="body_text"> 2 5 . Who, at the end of the novel, is Turtle’s “main ingredient” in her vegetable-soup song? Taylor