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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, "A Night on the Mountain".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Little Tree especially proud of in Chapter 9?
(a) That he is helping to take care of Granpa and Granma.
(b) That he owns fifty percent of the stake in the whiskey business.
(c) That he can contribute to making his own living.
(d) That he knows how to calculate the money from the whiskey.

2. By allowing him to watch the chase, how does Granpa reinforce his earlier lessons to Little Tree about the ways of nature and animals?
(a) By never killing the fox, which he does not need.
(b) By telling Little Tree it is wrong to kill.
(c) By not allowing the hounds to kill the fox.
(d) By not allowing the fox to kill the hounds.

3. What does Little Tree mean when he says that Granpa has a "sense of instinct"?
(a) That Granpa knows the trail very well.
(b) That Granpa has a natural ability to understand what is going on among the animals during the chase.
(c) That Granpa is able to smell the animals from far away.
(d) That Granpa has common sense.

4. What is the Hangin' Gap?
(a) A creek in the thin part of the trail.
(b) The place where Cherokees hang those who steal animals.
(c) The gap between the two mountains.
(d) The space between two streams in the mountain.

5. According to Granpa's joke, why is Ti-bi robbed by the bear, the coon and the Cherokee?
(a) Because he does not watch out for the hawk.
(b) Because he leaves his surroundings unprotected.
(c) For taking more than he needs from nature.
(d) Because he eats too much and falls asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Little Tree go to bed feeling happier in spite of his loss in Chapter 1?

2. How does the author demonstrate that despite being poor, the sharecropper is instilling pride in his daughter?

3. At the end of Chapter 2, how does Little Tree feel?

4. How does Granpa help Little Tree to accept the death of Ringer after he is bludgeoned in the mountains?

5. At the end of Chapter 1, what kind of house is Little Tree taken to by his grandparents?

(see the answer key)

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