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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20, "Home Again".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would be the most appropriate alternate title for Chapter 5?
(a) Little Tree Learns of Chattanooga.
(b) The Big Black Car.
(c) A Visit to the Settlement.
(d) Differences in Culture.

2. How does Chapter 2 end?
(a) With a poem about Mon-o-lah and The Way.
(b) With a poem about love of nature.
(c) With a poem about the animals.
(d) With a poem about the sunrise on the mountain.

3. How does the author demonstrate that despite being poor, the sharecropper is instilling pride in his daughter?
(a) The sharecropper chastises his daughter for talking to Little Tree.
(b) The sharecropper tells Granpa to keep his grandson away from his daughter.
(c) The sharecropper whips his daughter's legs and tells her to give back the moccasins Little Tree gives to her.
(d) The sharecropper forbids his daughter to speak to Little Tree.

4. Who guides the family when it comes to books, decisions and words?
(a) Granpa.
(b) Granma.
(c) The librarian.
(d) Pa.

5. According to Granma, what happens to people who use the body-living mind for greedy purposes?
(a) The spirit-mind shrinks and in rebirth, the child is born with a small spirit-mind that could eventually disappear and be completely lost.
(b) They suffer because other people hate their prosperity.
(c) They suffer because they have no spirit of generosity.
(d) They are the ones who acquire wealth and power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Little Tree mean when he says that Granpa has a "sense of instinct"?

2. The efforts made by the person who actually gets the reverend to release Little Tree from the orphanage symbolize the strength of some relationships. Which relationship is actually involved?

3. Why is it significant that Granpa reminds Little Tree in Chapter 10 about the importance of paying attention to people's tone and not just their words?

4. How do the two men from Chattanooga make fun of Little Tree?

5. Why does Granma describe some people in the world as "dead"?

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