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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, "A Night on the Mountain".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Little Tree especially proud of in Chapter 9?
(a) That he is helping to take care of Granpa and Granma.
(b) That he can contribute to making his own living.
(c) That he knows how to calculate the money from the whiskey.
(d) That he owns fifty percent of the stake in the whiskey business.

2. What is the unique mark on Granpa's whiskey jar?
(a) A mark shaped like the fox.
(b) A mark shaped like a tomahawk.
(c) A mark shaped like the whiskey still.
(d) A mark to remind him of his Scottish ancestry.

3. What do Little Tree and the sharecropper's daughter have in common?
(a) Both are exposed to the challenges of being young in an adult world.
(b) Both live off the land and have a strong sense of pride.
(c) Both are poor.
(d) Both are being deprived of education.

4. How does Granpa help Little Tree understand the seriousness of spending the money on the calf?
(a) Granpa reduces Little Tree's stake in the business.
(b) Granpa sends him to find the man who sold him the calf and demand his money.
(c) Granpa makes Little Tree write down on paper how much he spent and lost.
(d) Granpa makes Little Tree go without his earnings for the next two weeks.

5. 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 give Granpa his money to keep.
(b) He resolves to give his money to Granma to keep.
(c) He resolves to bury his money in his secret place.
(d) He resolves to keep his extra money in his fruit jar instead of in his pocket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the reader deduce about the author's intention in describing Cherokee beliefs and values in Chapter 8?

2. In regard to the family that Granpa sees facing hardships on the farm, what do Granpa and the soldiers have in common?

3. How does Granma respond when Little Tree gives her musk bugs?

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

5. What is the meaning of the red flag planted on the land by the regulators?

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