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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Willow John leave a long knife in church?
(a) It is a gift for the preacher that he leaves there because Indians do not make a fuss about gifts.
(b) It is a gift for Granpa that he leaves there because Indians do not make a fuss about gifts.
(c) It is a gift for Little Tree that he leaves there because Indians do not make a fuss about gifts.
(d) It is a gift for Granma that he leaves there because Indians do not make a fuss about gifts.

3. How does the preacher make Granpa angry in some of his sermons?
(a) He talks with contempt about the Cherokee.
(b) He rants and raves about whiskey makers.
(c) He talks with contempt about the Catholics.
(d) He talks a lot about Pharisees or separates, while looking and pointing straight at Granpa's family.

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

5. 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 he sneaks a letter to Granma complaining about his punishment.
(b) Because that night he dreams that Granpa comes for him.
(c) Because he tells them through the Dog Star every night about what happens, and that he wants to go home.
(d) Because he knows that Grandpa will feel his suffering in the weeping of the wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Little Tree describe Fall as nature's grace time?

2. How does Little Tree's love and appreciation of nature help him overcome the isolation of the orphanage?

3. In regard to the family that Granpa sees facing hardships on the farm, what do Granpa and the soldiers have in common?

4. In Chapter 16, what does the author suggest about the importance of the church teachings to Granpa and Little Tree?

5. How does Little Tree's education and instincts about nature get him into trouble at the orphanage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chapter 16 suggest about the place of church going in the lives of Little Tree's family?

2. What purpose does Willow John serve in the novel?

3. Give a brief summary of the events related by Granpa that lead to Little Tree's return from the orphanage.

4. What examples of prejudice and misunderstanding does Little Tree encounter at the orphanage?

5. What are the author's reasons for introducing the sharecropper and his daughter to the reader?

6. During an incident in Chapter 13, poor people on the farm in the clearing are harassed and killed by government authorities. What part does this incident play in the novel?

7. How and why does Granpa's approach to people in church who are badly off differ from the approach of others?

8. How does this episode on the old farm symbolize both the cruelty and generosity observed by Granpa in his youth?

9. Why isn't Granpa interested in talking to Mr. Slick and Mr. Chunk about putting him to work on a big whiskey still?

10. What are the main purposes served by the incident in which Granpa is bitten by the rattlesnake?

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