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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, "Mr. Wine".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following would be the best alternate title for Chapter 3?
(a) Granpa Learns to Read.
(b) Winter Evenings at the Cabin.
(c) Little Tree's Education.
(d) Family Circles.

2. What dangerous adventure gives Chapter 12 its title?
(a) Little Tree is bitten by a rattlesnake.
(b) Granpa is bitten by a rattlesnake from which he rescues Little Tree.
(c) Little Tree is bitten by a bear.
(d) Granpa is bitten by a bear.

3. In Chapter 6, how does the author explain that Pa knows Indians are around?
(a) After leaving certain items in the forest, he comes back to find a long Indian knife, a tomahawk and only some of what he left.
(b) He sees smoke signals across the mountain.
(c) He hears the Indians whispering in the mountains.
(d) He sees the remains of fires and cooked meat.

4. Why does Granma describe some people in the world as "dead"?
(a) They are only interested in oppressing others.
(b) They have no spirit-mind so they only see dirty if they look at a woman and they fail to see beauty in nature.
(c) They are only interested in material things.
(d) They are cruel to women and abuse nature.

5. What lesson does the author teach the reader in Chapter 6, based on how the Indians responded to the oppression by the soldiers?
(a) Oppressed people can remain strong and proud.
(b) The oppressed should fight back even if it causes more deaths.
(c) The oppressed should surrender in order to save lives.
(d) The oppressed will always turn against each other in order to escape death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what two ways does the author introduce humor in the incident with the two men from Chattanooga?

2. How is the reader made aware that Pa eventually gets very close to the Indians?

3. How does Granma respond when Little Tree gives her musk bugs?

4. At the beginning of the chapter "The Farm in the Clearing", what inhuman scene does Granpa describe to Little Tree?

5. In Chapter 2, who has just died when Little Tree's relatives argue about where he should live?

(see the answer key)

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