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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4, Uncle Remus and His Friends.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Brer Rabbit trick Brer Fox out of his hunting game?
(a) by claiming that the bag is poisonous.
(b) by playing dead causing Brer Fox to put down his bag.
(c) by telling Brer Fox where there is bigger game.
(d) by exchanging the game bag for a bag of rocks.

2. What lie does Brer Rabbit tell Mr. Man to trick him out of his meat?
(a) that it smells and Mr. Man must drag it behind him.
(b) that Brer Wolf smells it and is coming to get it.
(c) that it was poisoned by Brer Buzzard.
(d) that the meat is really buzzard meat.

3. What is African Jack's version of the hungry rabbit and wolf?
(a) they eat their grandmothers' food.
(b) they plan to eat their grandmothers.
(c) they sell their grandmothers.
(d) they wrestle to eat each other.

4. How is Brer Rabbit's idea of sewing the dog's mouth shut like the Aesop fable of the Mice and the Cat?
(a) the dog never closes his mouth like the cat.
(b) rabbits and mice have no fingers to use for sewing.
(c) mice fear the dog in one story and the cat in the other.
(d) no one wnts to do the sewing like no one would bell the cat.

5. 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) he throws the Muscadines down and Brer Rabbit takes them.
(c) the hawk comes and pushes him out of the tree.
(d) he injures himself in a fall out of the tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who answers Brer Tarrypin by saying, "knee deep"?

2. According to Uncle Remus, which character are both Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox sweet on?

3. How does Mrs. Partridge frighten away Brer Rabbit?

4. How does the story begin?

5. How does Uncle Remus explain the cure for a plantation witch?

(see the answer key)

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