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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Little Tree find interesting that makes him watch the umbrella spider for hours?
(a) How the spider crawls back to the same place repeatedly.
(b) How persistent the spider is in building a wide web across ferns, even though it keeps falling into the water.
(c) How the spider climbs out of the water.
(d) How the spider outwits and eats several flies.

2. How do the visitor's ambitions contrast with the values of Granpa and Granma?
(a) The visitor wants to get easy money but Granpa and Granma know they own inherited land so they need no schemes to get rich.
(b) The visitor wants money but Granma and Granpa don't want to be rich, they just want to protect Little Tree's inheritance.
(c) The visitor is intent on getting rich while Granpa and Granma have no interest in having more than they need to survive.
(d) The visitor wants quick riches but Granpa and Granma prefer to get rich by selling crops.

3. In Chapter 1, what does Little Tree's description of the woods around his new home reveal about his attitude to the surroundings?
(a) He finds the surroundings strange.
(b) He is longing for his old surroundings.
(c) The sights and sounds terrify him.
(d) He hates the sound of the wind but he likes the whispering wind.

4. How does Granma help Little Tree to understand the relationship between nature and human development?
(a) Granma explains that Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter are the periods of spiritual growth in a person's life.
(b) Granma explains that the seasons are times when humans should learn from nature how to improve.
(c) Granma explains that Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter are like childhood, adolescence and maturity in humans.
(d) Granma explains that Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter are periods in nature just as birth, adulthood, ageing and death are phases in human life.

5. According to Chapter 3, how does Granpa feel about politicians and authority figures?
(a) Granpa does not like politicians and authority figures.
(b) Granpa likes to hear about politicians and authority figures.
(c) Granpa believes politicians and authority figures are necessary to keep order.
(d) Granpa is afraid of politicians and authority figures.

6. What does Little Tree mean when he says that Granpa has a "sense of instinct"?
(a) That Granpa has a natural ability to understand what is going on among the animals during the chase.
(b) That Granpa is able to smell the animals from far away.
(c) That Granpa knows the trail very well.
(d) That Granpa has common sense.

7. What does the visitor in Chapter 7 do at dinner that tempts Little Tree to forget one of his lessons about taking things?
(a) He takes three slices of Granma's sweet potato pie, and Little Tree silently craves the last slice.
(b) He wears bright yellow high-top shoes that Little Tree secretly craves.
(c) He brings only three small corns so Little Tree has to do without.
(d) He tells Little Tree he can have one of the corns, and Little Tree is tempted to take the biggest one.

8. Why does Granpa object to people who age whiskey?
(a) He believes they age whiskey to disguise the substances they add to it.
(b) He believes rich men scheme to convince people that aged whiskey is better.
(c) He believes they are trying to disguise bad whiskey by keeping it longer.
(d) He believes that they are trying to make extra money.

9. In Chapter 7, Little Tree's grandparents place emphasis on teaching him some more very important skills. Why do they do this?
(a) They want to make sure he will be able to take care of them soon.
(b) They want to make sure he will be a good father.
(c) They are making sure that Little Tree learns enough to be self-sufficient off the land.
(d) They want to make sure he learns about his tribe's habits.

10. According to Granpa's story, why did his father's friend enter the church with a pistol?
(a) The people in the church have been saying bad things about him.
(b) Because having fought battles all his life and lost everything, he has nothing more to fight about.
(c) He has lost his home and family.
(d) He believes the preacher's sermon is against him.

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

12. 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.

13. Why does Little Tree set the coal oil can down when the lady in the black car speaks to them?
(a) Because it is getting heavy.
(b) Because Granpa teaches him that when spoken to, he should give full attention out of respect.
(c) To avoid the smell.
(d) Because it is beginning to spill oil.

14. How old is Little Tree when the novel begins?
(a) Five years old.
(b) Seven years old.
(c) Six years old.
(d) Nine years old.

15. What lesson does the author teach the reader in Chapter 6, based on how the Indians responded to the oppression by the soldiers?
(a) The oppressed should fight back even if it causes more deaths.
(b) Oppressed people can remain strong and proud.
(c) The oppressed will always turn against each other in order to escape death.
(d) The oppressed should surrender in order to save lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difference between the author's portrayal of the visitor in Chapter 7 and the way in which the innocent Little Tree views him?

2. Granma accidentally reads about a law introduced by George Washington and this gets Granpa very angry. What law is this?

3. Which book is always available at Little Tree's cabin and why?

4. Why is there some truth in Granpa's belief that the way people sound when they talk can be more important than the words they use?

5. In the mountains in Chapter 2, what does Little Tree see Tal-con doing?

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