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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, "The Secret Place".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, why does Little Tree feel grown-up?
(a) He is allowed to prepare the food.
(b) Granma gives him a deer shirt like Granpa's to wear.
(c) Granma teaches him to make his own shirt.
(d) Granpa lets him go up the trail by himself.

2. How do Granma and Granpa portray the 'Trail of Tears' for Little Tree?
(a) As an incident of cruelty in which the Cherokee displayed pride.
(b) As an incident of fierce aggression by the Cherokee.
(c) As an incident of cruelty from which the Cherokee never recovered.
(d) As an incident of shame and cowardice.

3. According to Granma, what happens to people who use the body-living mind for greedy purposes?
(a) They suffer because they have no spirit of generosity.
(b) They suffer because other people hate their prosperity.
(c) The spirit-mind shrinks and in rebirth, the child is born with a small spirit-mind that could eventually disappear and be completely lost.
(d) They are the ones who acquire wealth and power.

4. Which of the following would be the best alternate title for Chapter 3?
(a) Little Tree's Education.
(b) Granpa Learns to Read.
(c) Winter Evenings at the Cabin.
(d) Family Circles.

5. Why does Granma describe some people in the world as "dead"?
(a) They are only interested in material things.
(b) They are cruel to women and abuse nature.
(c) They have no spirit-mind so they only see dirty if they look at a woman and they fail to see beauty in nature.
(d) They are only interested in oppressing others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the reader learn about Granpa from his reaction to the lady in the black car who is rude to him?

2. How does the author reveal that the policeman might be wrong to put the driver of the black car in jail?

3. What is the most important lesson that Little Tree learns from the stories heard in Chapter 5?

4. At the end of Chapter 1, what kind of house is Little Tree taken to by his grandparents?

5. What lesson does the author teach the reader in Chapter 6, based on how the Indians responded to the oppression by the soldiers?

(see the answer key)

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