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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, "To Know The Past".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 will always turn against each other in order to escape death.
(b) The oppressed should fight back even if it causes more deaths.
(c) Oppressed people can remain strong and proud.
(d) The oppressed should surrender in order to save lives.

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

3. Why is there some truth in Granpa's belief that the way people sound when they talk can be more important than the words they use?
(a) Because people, like politicians, sometimes use words to trick others.
(b) Because words have many different meanings.
(c) Because people tell lies using misleading words.
(d) Because some people don't know the meanings of the words they use.

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

5. By allowing him to watch the chase, how does Granpa reinforce his earlier lessons to Little Tree about the ways of nature and animals?
(a) By telling Little Tree it is wrong to kill.
(b) By not allowing the hounds to kill the fox.
(c) By never killing the fox, which he does not need.
(d) By not allowing the fox to kill the hounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Little Tree's grandparents reveal about the Cherokee style of passing on information and lessons from one generation to the other?

2. Which book is always available at Little Tree's cabin and why?

3. According to Little Tree, why do the white mountain men in the area respect Granpa?

4. Which three people does Little Tree learn about from Granpa's stories in Chapter 5?

5. What is the name of the part of the mountain trail between the mountains where the trail becomes thinner?

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