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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Uncle Remus' explanation for why the turkey buzzard is bald?
(a) the rabbit snatched her head feathers while she slept.
(b) when the rabbit got away, she pulled out her head feathers.
(c) the rabbit threw hot ashes on her head.
(d) she washed her head with lye soap.

2. What do the rabbit and the wolf do to get provisions when they are hungry?
(a) Take provisions from the man.
(b) Race to the store.
(c) Sell the fox's fur coat.
(d) Sell their mamas.

3. In the tale, Brother Fox and the White Muscadines, what happens after Brer Rabbit helps him climb a tree?
(a) he eats so much that he cannot get down.
(b) the hawk comes and pushes him out of the tree.
(c) he injures himself in a fall out of the tree.
(d) he throws the Muscadines down and Brer Rabbit takes them.

4. How does Uncle Remus have Brer Rabbit interfere in the human world?
(a) he plants doubt in Mr. Man who kicks out his daughter.
(b) he makes up stories about Mr. Man and his daughter.
(c) he becomes a spy for Mr. Man on his daughter.
(d) he persuades Mr. Man's daughter to run away.

5. What does Uncle Remus do for the little boy that he did for Miss Sally when she was a girl?
(a) gives him bitter molases for a cold.
(b) he protects him from being punished.
(c) tells his father how he acted up.
(d) teaches him how to start a fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brer Rabbit trick the lion into letting his tail be tied to a tree?

2. How does Brer Tarrypin fool Brer Fox into letting go of his tail?

3. Who is the main storyteller of the book?

4. How does Brer Rabbit make dust from a rock?

5. What does the buzzard attempt to teach the terrapin?

(see the answer key)

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