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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, "Church-Going".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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 hears the Indians whispering in the mountains.
(c) He sees the remains of fires and cooked meat.
(d) He sees smoke signals across the mountain.
2. According to the news heard in Chapter 11, what is causing people in New York to die?
(a) They are killing themselves by jumping off roofs.
(b) Severe snow storms.
(c) Overcrowding and the spread of illnesses.
(d) A serious epidemic that causes depression.
3. When the soldiers drive the Cherokee from their land, how do the Cherokee show their pride?
(a) They look straight ahead as they march and refuse rides in the soldiers' wagons.
(b) They sing brave songs on the journey.
(c) They plant their nation's flag where every Cherokee is buried.
(d) They fight back and repel the soldiers.
4. According to his grandparents, why is it important for Little Tree to learn about his past?
(a) Because it will help him understand the Cherokee ways.
(b) Because without understanding his past, he will not understand his future.
(c) So he will know about his relatives.
(d) Because he will have to teach his own children about the past.
5. How does the author demonstrate that despite being poor, the sharecropper is instilling pride in his daughter?
(a) The sharecropper whips his daughter's legs and tells her to give back the moccasins Little Tree gives to her.
(b) The sharecropper forbids his daughter to speak to Little Tree.
(c) The sharecropper chastises his daughter for talking to Little Tree.
(d) The sharecropper tells Granpa to keep his grandson away from his daughter.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the Trail of Tears?
2. How do the Cherokee who escape from the soldiers into the hollows survive?
3. How is the reader made aware that Pa eventually gets very close to the Indians?
4. How does the preacher make Granpa angry in some of his sermons?
5. What do Little Tree's grandparents reveal about the Cherokee style of passing on information and lessons from one generation to the other?
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