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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20, "Home Again".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At church, how does Granpa demonstrate his belief about the importance of self-sufficiency ?
(a) Granpa gives no one anything; instead he offers to teach them how to plow the land for food.
(b) Granpa brings whiskey for the poor so they can learn how to sell it and save extra money.
(c) Instead of giving people money, he offers to teach them how to make whiskey.
(d) When a family loses all their furniture in a fire, Granpa brings them a chair and shows the man how to make it himself.

2. How does the author demonstrate that despite being poor, the sharecropper is instilling pride in his daughter?
(a) The sharecropper forbids his daughter to speak to Little Tree.
(b) The sharecropper chastises his daughter for talking to Little Tree.
(c) The sharecropper tells Granpa to keep his grandson away from his daughter.
(d) The sharecropper whips his daughter's legs and tells her to give back the moccasins Little Tree gives to her.

3. What is the importance of the way Chapter 12 ends?
(a) To demonstrate that everyone in the family has an important role.
(b) To demonstrate how grave danger has cemented the bonds among the members of the family.
(c) To demonstrate that time is running out for the family.
(d) To demonstrate that the Cherokee way of life has serious dangers.

4. How does the author use contrast to show different lifestyles and characters in Chapter 7?
(a) The author contrasts the plow with the fast black car driven by the visitor.
(b) The author describes the mountain and then changes the setting to the busy square at the settlement.
(c) The author brings the excited policeman dressed in his city clothes into the cabin where everyone is calm and dressed in traditional clothes.
(d) The author describes the routine, laborious work on the land and later shows readers a colorful visitor talking about cars, criminals and money-making schemes.

5. In Chapter 2, who has just died when Little Tree's relatives argue about where he should live?
(a) Pa.
(b) Red Wing.
(c) Willow John.
(d) Little Tree's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Granma make for Little Tree to wear for his first walk up the trail with Granpa?

2. Why does Granpa enjoy hunting even though he has never killed a fox in his life?

3. In Chapter 7, Little Tree's grandparents place emphasis on teaching him some more very important skills. Why do they do this?

4. In regard to leaving the orphanage, how does Granpa reveal that he wants Little Tree to continue learning to make his own decisions?

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

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