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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In regard to the family that Granpa sees facing hardships on the farm, what do Granpa and the soldiers have in common?
(a) They are concerned about the children.
(b) They are prejudiced against the black man at the farm.
(c) They are motivated to provide help.
(d) They believe they have no right to be there.

2. How does the author establish Granma's resourcefulness in Chapter 12?
(a) She quickly takes charge of the situation and does everything that's necessary to make things right.
(b) She sends Little Tree to the neighboring cabin to get help.
(c) She hurries Little Tree and Granpa to the cabin where she quickly finds remedies.
(d) She uses a Cherokee cry to alert other mountain people to the problem.

3. The efforts made by the person who actually gets the reverend to release Little Tree from the orphanage symbolize the strength of some relationships. Which relationship is actually involved?
(a) The relationship between grandparents and grandchildren.
(b) The relationship between two friends.
(c) The relationship between a preacher and his church member.
(d) The relationship between an uncle and his nephew.

4. According to Mr. Jenkins, who are the two men from Chattanooga and why are they looking for Granpa?
(a) Mr. Slick and Mr. Chunk are big city men who want to buy crops from Granpa.
(b) Mr. Slick and Mr. Chunk are big city men in the whiskey trade and want to put Granpa to work on a big still.
(c) Mr. Slick and Mr. Chunk are big city men who have come to investigate Little Tree's upbringing.
(d) Mr. Slick and Mr. Chunk are big city men who want to buy land from Granpa.

5. The author implies there is a special bond between Willow John and Little Tree, despite the difference in their ages. What is the cause of this bond?
(a) Both are outsiders who don't quite belong in the world they occupy.
(b) Both have a great sense of humor.
(c) Both have suffered from having to adjust to moving to the mountain area.
(d) Both have suffered the loss of their parents.

6. 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 makes Little Tree go without his earnings for the next two weeks.
(c) Granpa makes Little Tree write down on paper how much he spent and lost.
(d) Granpa sends him to find the man who sold him the calf and demand his money.

7. In teaching Little Tree, how does Mr. Wine reinforce Granma's lessons about the spirit-mind and the body-mind?
(a) He says there is modern, technical education to help you make a living and there is the education that makes you honest and caring.
(b) He says some education is technical and some is spiritual.
(c) He says some education is practical and some is theoretical.
(d) He says some education is for work and some for appreciating life.

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

9. How does Mr. Wine assure Little Tree that he is getting a good education?
(a) He says most children of Little Tree's age do not learn five words per week.
(b) He says most children of Little Tree's age know nothing about Macbeth and Napoleon.
(c) He says children of Little Tree's age have never heard of Shakespeare.
(d) He says most children of Little Tree's age have learned nothing about farming and hunting.

10. How does the author create sympathy in the reader for Willow John?
(a) He describes Willow John as a broken man.
(b) He describes his silence about the lost Nation and his sad eyes that suggest his thoughts are far away.
(c) He describes how there are always tears in his eyes when he speaks about the Nation.
(d) He describes how Willow John stays away from everyone and looks sad.

11. Who plays the most significant role in getting Little Tree back from the orphanage, thereby demonstrating the deep bond between them?
(a) Granma.
(b) Granpa.
(c) Pine Billy.
(d) Willow John.

12. Why does the author include the special relationship between Mr. Wine and Little Tree's family in the story?
(a) To show that Little Tree has someone to help round out his education.
(b) To show that Little Tree is learning to relate to many different people.
(c) To show that despite ethnic and racial differences, people with common values and beliefs can become close friends.
(d) To show that the world has many different types of people.

13. How do the two men from Chattanooga make fun of Little Tree?
(a) They tease him about belonging nowhere.
(b) They call him uneducated.
(c) They laugh at his moccasins.
(d) They call him an unpleasant name because he does not recollect his father.

14. Why does Mr. Wine light a candle at a special time?
(a) He believes that it is a way of sharing thoughts with his scattered relatives who light candles at the same time.
(b) It is time for the Jewish evening prayer.
(c) It is part of the Jewish ritual.
(d) It is in memory of his grandson.

15. Why does Little Tree believe that the incident in which he gets into trouble with the teacher eventually leads to Granpa coming for him?
(a) Because that night he dreams that Granpa comes for him.
(b) Because he sneaks a letter to Granma complaining about his punishment.
(c) Because he knows that Grandpa will feel his suffering in the weeping of the wind.
(d) Because he tells them through the Dog Star every night about what happens, and that he wants to go home.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Granpa's story about the farm, who was in charge of the land when Granpa was growing up?

2. How does Little Tree create a disturbance in church?

3. In what two ways does the author introduce humor in the incident with the two men from Chattanooga?

4. How does the author reveal Granpa's sense of humor even during this dangerous adventure?

5. What do Little Tree and the sharecropper's daughter have in common?

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