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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the author provide signs of racism in this first chapter of the book?
(a) To foreshadow more serious instances of racism that will occur later.
(b) Because Little Tree's family are freedom fighters.
(c) Because the Cherokees constantly practice racism.
(d) Because it's the only time it happens.

2. How does Granma respond when Little Tree gives her musk bugs?
(a) She is frightened and asks him to take them away.
(b) She praises Little Tree for spreading good by sharing whatever good one finds.
(c) She calls Granpa to complain about what Little Tree has done.
(d) She gathers them in a bottle to make the cabin smell good.

3. What is the Trail of Tears?
(a) The journey towards the burial ground of the Cherokee.
(b) The journey made by the Cherokee Nation when army soldiers force them to move to new lands.
(c) The path up the mountain where Cherokee go to mourn their dead.
(d) The journey made by Cherokee each year to commemorate the loss of their nation.

4. What reasons are given in Chapter 4 for Granpa to keep the hounds?
(a) To keep away the other Cherokee.
(b) To protect Granma when she is alone.
(c) To guard the crops and cabin and to have fun fox-hunting.
(d) To keep away people from the settlement.

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

6. Granma accidentally reads about a law introduced by George Washington and this gets Granpa very angry. What law is this?
(a) A law to send all Cherokee children to orphanages for proper education.
(b) A law to force Cherokees to live in modern houses.
(c) A tax on whiskey.
(d) A tax on Cherokee lands.

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 brings only three small corns so Little Tree has to do without.
(b) He tells Little Tree he can have one of the corns, and Little Tree is tempted to take the biggest one.
(c) He wears bright yellow high-top shoes that Little Tree secretly craves.
(d) He takes three slices of Granma's sweet potato pie, and Little Tree silently craves the last slice.

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

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

10. What does the reader learn about Granpa from his reaction to the lady in the black car who is rude to him?
(a) He has a very bad temper.
(b) He is afraid of people who insult others.
(c) He is able to maintain his dignity even when treated badly.
(d) He does not understand insults.

11. What reason does Granpa suggest as the only logical explanation for this law of George Washington's that makes him so angry?
(a) Washington hates Cherokees.
(b) Washington got a blow in the head.
(c) Washington is a thief.
(d) Washington hates children.

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

13. How is this visitor in Chapter 7 hoping to become rich?
(a) By winning a writing competition and through a reward for alerting the police to the existence of a big criminal.
(b) Through a reward from the police for turning in a stolen black car.
(c) Through a prize in a competition at the settlement.
(d) By selling a large piece of land to the government and then earn interest at the bank.

14. What is the name of the part of the mountain trail between the mountains where the trail becomes thinner?
(a) LittleTrail.
(b) Thinning Trail.
(c) Narrow Trail.
(d) The Narrows.

15. What does Little Tree find interesting that makes him watch the umbrella spider for hours?
(a) How the spider outwits and eats several flies.
(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 crawls back to the same place repeatedly.
(d) How the spider climbs out of the water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By allowing him to watch the chase, how does Granpa reinforce his earlier lessons to Little Tree about the ways of nature and animals?

3. What do Little Tree's grandparents reveal about the Cherokee style of passing on information and lessons from one generation to the other?

4. Which three people does Little Tree learn about from Granpa's stories in Chapter 5?

5. What is the unique mark on Granpa's whiskey jar?

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