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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. At the beginning of the chapter "The Farm in the Clearing", what inhuman scene does Granpa describe to Little Tree?
(a) He sees a man and woman wearing leather harnesses and pulling a plow like mules.
(b) He sees a man beating a woman and two children.
(c) He sees soldiers abusing the children.
(d) He sees a man with a stump for a leg being beaten by soldiers.

2. What is the meaning of the red flag planted on the land by the regulators?
(a) It means blood has been shed during fighting on the land.
(b) It means that the government has evicted squatters from the land.
(c) It means the occupants cannot pay the taxes on the land.
(d) It means the occupants have been taken to jail.

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 an uncle and his nephew.
(b) The relationship between grandparents and grandchildren.
(c) The relationship between a preacher and his church member.
(d) The relationship between two friends.

4. In what two ways does the author introduce humor in the incident with the two men from Chattanooga?
(a) By describing how Granpa leads them to the edge of the cliff and taunts them until they beg for forgiveness.
(b) By describing how Little Tree outwits them and sends them running from the hounds.
(c) By describing how Little Tree sets the hounds on them and they are chased into the freezing river.
(d) By describing how the men fall into poison ivy and how Granma cooks them fish with roots that cause diarrhea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the events in Chapter 12 demonstrate the importance of Granma's knowledge of plants and herbs?

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

3. In regard to leaving the orphanage, how does Granpa reveal that he wants Little Tree to continue learning to make his own decisions?

4. What is the importance of the way Chapter 12 ends?

5. According to the news heard in Chapter 11, what is causing people in New York to die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Give an example from Chapter 12 of how well the author uses vivid description to convey a picture of Spring to the reader.

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

4. How do Granpa and Little Tree continue to make sure that as much as possible is learned from Little's Tree loss in the calf purchase?

5. In what ways does the author communicate to the reader the growing fear and grief experienced by Granpa, Granma and Little Tree at the prospect of their separation?

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

7. Write a short character sketch of Mr. Wine and summarize his role in the story.

8. 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?

9. What are the early symbols in Chapter 20 of Little Tree's excitement that he is home from the orphanage?

10. In what way does the title of Chapter 18 foreshadow the events that occur in it?

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