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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, "Down From the Mountain".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about the type of church that Little Tree's family attends?
(a) It is the only church so it services various faiths, including Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Church of Christ.
(b) It is the only church so the preacher uses many different languages.
(c) The church only allows Cherokee to sit at the back.
(d) The church is only open for services once per month.

2. At the beginning of the chapter "The Farm in the Clearing", what inhuman scene does Granpa describe to Little Tree?
(a) He sees a man and woman wearing leather harnesses and pulling a plow like mules.
(b) He sees a man with a stump for a leg being beaten by soldiers.
(c) He sees soldiers abusing the children.
(d) He sees a man beating a woman and two children.

3. How do the two men from Chattanooga make fun of Little Tree?
(a) They call him an unpleasant name because he does not recollect his father.
(b) They call him uneducated.
(c) They laugh at his moccasins.
(d) They tease him about belonging nowhere.

4. According to Granpa's story about the farm, who was in charge of the land when Granpa was growing up?
(a) The Cherokees were in charge of the land.
(b) Granpa's family had the run of the land.
(c) The land was occupied by Union soldiers and run by politicians.
(d) The Confederates were in charge of the land.

5. What dangerous adventure gives Chapter 12 its title?
(a) Little Tree is bitten by a rattlesnake.
(b) Little Tree is bitten by a bear.
(c) Granpa is bitten by a bear.
(d) Granpa is bitten by a rattlesnake from which he rescues Little Tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Granpa's reason for taking Little Tree on this walk up the trail?

2. What helps to determine whether Granpa and Granma light the coal oil lamp in the evenings during winter?

3. What does the woman in the black car ask when she stops Little Tree and Granpa on their way back from the settlement?

4. What would be the most appropriate alternate title for Chapter 5?

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

(see the answer key)

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