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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is it significant that Granpa reminds Little Tree in Chapter 10 about the importance of paying attention to people's tone and not just their words?
(a) Because Little Tree is getting older and facing new challenges.
(b) Because Granpa knows that there is trouble coming.
(c) Because shortly after the reminder, Little Tree is tricked by a "Christian" using misleading words.
(d) Because Granpa knows that a politician will be visiting.

3. What is Granpa's reason for taking Little Tree on this walk up the trail?
(a) To show him the bees at work.
(b) To show him the way up to the mountains so he can see the sunrise.
(c) To teach him how to hunt.
(d) To expose him to the animals and teach him "The Way".

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

5. What two important characteristics of Granpa are revealed by the description of the fox and the hounds episode?
(a) Grandpa's great ability to catch foxes and control the hounds.
(b) His immense respect for nature and animals and his sense of humor.
(c) Granpa's love for swimming and diving.
(d) Granpa's speed and agility.

6. In Chapter 7, why does Granpa say that Little Tree looks like he is becoming a man?
(a) He is learning to farm and to plow although the work is difficult.
(b) He is learning to cook with Granma's herbs.
(c) He shows that he understands Granma's lessons about herbs.
(d) He begins to go out to the distant lands by himself.

7. When Little Tree demonstrates that he has learned the lessons about nature, what name does Granpa say he would give him if he didn't have a name already?
(a) Little Bear.
(b) Little Hawk.
(c) Little Cherokee.
(d) Little Bee.

8. When the soldiers drive the Cherokee from their land, how do the Cherokee show their pride?
(a) They plant their nation's flag where every Cherokee is buried.
(b) They look straight ahead as they march and refuse rides in the soldiers' wagons.
(c) They fight back and repel the soldiers.
(d) They sing brave songs on the journey.

9. 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 knows how to calculate the money from the whiskey.
(c) That he owns fifty percent of the stake in the whiskey business.
(d) That he can contribute to making his own living.

10. What would be the most appropriate alternate title for Chapter 4?
(a) Granpa's Way of Hunting.
(b) Little Tree Takes A Fox.
(c) The Fox outwits the Hounds.
(d) Mountain Hunting.

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

12. In Chapter 2, how does Little Tree demonstrate that he has learned Granpa's lesson about nature's ways?
(a) By rescuing the quail.
(b) By selecting the three smallest turkeys from the turkey trap to take home.
(c) By releasing the turkeys from the trap.
(d) By protecting Ti-bi from the hawk.

13. As he goes up the trail, how does Little Tree become aware of "Mon-o-lah", the earth mother?
(a) Little Tree hears the earth mother whispering in the wind.
(b) Little Tree feels the earth mother through his special shoes.
(c) Little Tree sees the earth mother in a cave.
(d) Little Tree sees the earth mother in a stream of water.

14. How does Granpa dispose of the whiskey he makes?
(a) He keeps most of it and sells the rest to the store.
(b) He gives away half and sells half.
(c) He sells most of it, keeps some, and gives away the rest.
(d) He sells nine gallons to a store and keeps two gallons for use at home.

15. Where does Granma get books to read to Little Tree and Granpa?
(a) Granma reads books that Little Tree brought with him from his parents' home.
(b) Granma buys books at the settlement store.
(c) Granma reads books that Little Tree brings them from the school at the settlement.
(d) Little Tree and Granpa collect them from the library at the settlement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reasons are given in Chapter 4 for Granpa to keep the hounds?

2. How do the Cherokee who escape from the soldiers into the hollows survive?

3. What is the most important lesson that Little Tree learns from the stories heard in Chapter 5?

4. Why is it important for the author to reveal that Granpa and Granma have friends who visit them?

5. How does Granpa help Little Tree relate the lessons about nature to the behavior of some people?

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