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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Little Tree's responsibility in producing the whiskey?
(a) He helps to pour the sugar in the whiskey.
(b) He helps to bottle the whiskey.
(c) He helps to stir and clean the pot.
(d) He helps to carry the whiskey to the store.

2. At the beginning of the novel, how is Little Tree taken to his new home?
(a) He walks.
(b) He rides a bus part of the way and then walks.
(c) He goes by car.
(d) He goes by bus.

3. What is Little Tree learning from the way in which Granma and Granpa deal with any extra money that they get from the whiskey?
(a) The importance of saving extra money.
(b) To take the money to the bank.
(c) The importance of giving extra money to those who are worse off.
(d) To make a list of things to buy with extra money.

4. How does Granpa's disposal of the whiskey demonstrate that he is observing the lessons he teaches Little Tree about nature's ways?
(a) He keeps the whiskey in case of snake bites.
(b) He sells the whiskey for just a little more than what they need to get by.
(c) He gives away most of the whiskey he makes.
(d) He only makes a small amount of whiskey.

5. What happens in Chapter 8 to suggest that Little Tree has a natural tendency towards some Cherokee ways?
(a) He is naturally attracted to the songs of the frogs.
(b) He finds himself a special "secret" place and Granma tells him all Cherokees have secret places.
(c) He is naturally attracted to the spiders weaving their webs.
(d) He is naturally attracted to the medicinal herbs that Granma collects.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Cherokee who escape from the soldiers into the hollows survive?

2. When Little Tree demonstrates that he has learned the lessons about nature, what name does Granpa say he would give him if he didn't have a name already?

3. Why does Granpa enjoy hunting even though he has never killed a fox in his life?

4. In Chapter 4, why does Little Tree feel grown-up?

5. How does Granpa dispose of the whiskey he makes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Granma illustrate her father's ability to feel tree spirits?

2. What is the importance of the boot moccasins that Granma makes for Little Tree?

3. What detailed explanation of "The Way" does Granpa's give Little Tree when the hawk, Tal-con kills a quail?

4. Give two important place names and one animal's name that occur in chapter 4. Explain why the names are very appropriate.

5. What is the significance of the title of the chapter "I kin ye Bonnie Bee"?

6. How does the behavior of some of the people on the bus help to introduce one of the themes of the novel?

7. According to Chapter 6, why is it important for Little Tree to know the past?

8. Why is the trail called the "Trail of Tears" and how does the author challenge some traditional beliefs about what happened there?

9. How does Little Tree's independent selection of a secret place inform the reader about his character?

10. In Chapter 3, how does Granpa explain George Washington's decision to introduce a tax on whiskey? How does Granpa justify this belief?

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