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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. What is the Trail of Tears?
(a) The journey towards the burial ground of the Cherokee.
(b) The journey made by the Cherokee Nation when army soldiers force them to move to new lands.
(c) The path up the mountain where Cherokee go to mourn their dead.
(d) The journey made by Cherokee each year to commemorate the loss of their nation.
2. What change does Little Tree make that demonstrates how much he has learned from the loss of the money spent on the calf?
(a) He resolves to keep his extra money in his fruit jar instead of in his pocket.
(b) He resolves to bury his money in his secret place.
(c) He resolves to give his money to Granma to keep.
(d) He resolves to give Granpa his money to keep.
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 the remains of fires and cooked meat.
(c) He sees smoke signals across the mountain.
(d) He hears the Indians whispering in the mountains.
4. What lesson does the author teach the reader in Chapter 6, based on how the Indians responded to the oppression by the soldiers?
(a) The oppressed should fight back even if it causes more deaths.
(b) The oppressed will always turn against each other in order to escape death.
(c) Oppressed people can remain strong and proud.
(d) The oppressed should surrender in order to save lives.
5. How does the preacher make Granpa angry in some of his sermons?
(a) He rants and raves about whiskey makers.
(b) He talks with contempt about the Cherokee.
(c) He talks with contempt about the Catholics.
(d) He talks a lot about Pharisees or separates, while looking and pointing straight at Granpa's family.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is the best alternate title for Chapter 6?
2. What is unusual about the type of church that Little Tree's family attends?
3. At church, how does Granpa demonstrate his belief about the importance of self-sufficiency ?
4. What do Little Tree and the sharecropper's daughter have in common?
5. How does the author demonstrate that despite being poor, the sharecropper is instilling pride in his daughter?
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