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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, "Granpa's Trade".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it important for the author to reveal that Granpa and Granma have friends who visit them?
(a) To make it clear that Little Tree is being protected.
(b) To make it clear that Little Tree's grandparents are not bringing him up in a way that isolates him from other people.
(c) To make it clear that everyone is not racially prejudiced.
(d) To make it clear that Little Tree is kept away from adults who are not Cherokee.

2. How is the reader made aware that Pa eventually gets very close to the Indians?
(a) He moves into their camp.
(b) He advises them on how to remain safe from the soldiers.
(c) He moves them closer to where he lives.
(d) He eventually marries one of the young daughters.

3. What is the most important lesson that Little Tree learns from the stories heard in Chapter 5?
(a) That he has many relatives.
(b) The bad effects of fighting.
(c) That "kin" is all about the love and understanding between some people.
(d) That Granpa almost went to Chattanooga.

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

5. How does Granpa help Little Tree relate the lessons about nature to the behavior of some people?
(a) Granpa says that people who take more than their share do better than others.
(b) Granpa teaches Little Tree that people who store and take more than their share contribute to wars, land-grabbing and changing nature's ways.
(c) Granpa says that people who take more than their share cause jealousy.
(d) Granpa says that people who take more than their share cause others to starve.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the visitor's ambitions contrast with the values of Granpa and Granma?

2. In Chapter 4, why does Little Tree feel grown-up?

3. Why does the author provide signs of racism in this first chapter of the book?

4. In the narration, Little Tree says he discovers later on that Granma only read some parts of the stories about George Washington. What reason does Little Tree suggest for this?

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

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