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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6, The Tales of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Uncle Remus explain the cure for a plantation witch?
(a) salt in the witch's bed keeps him from transforming into a bat.
(b) bars on the windows keep him from going out in the night.
(c) salt on his shed skin causes the witch agony when he returns.
(d) chicken blood sprinkled on the witch makes him lose power.

2. What is the disguise that Brer Fox uses to scare the other animals from the watering hole?
(a) he gets under a horned cow hide.
(b) he is covered in molasses and leaves.
(c) he learns to roar like a lion.
(d) he paints himself white like a ghost.

3. How does Brer Rabbit avoid capture by Brer Bear after he gets out of Brer Fox's trap?
(a) by running to Miss Meadows' house.
(b) by jumping into the briar patch.
(c) by hiding in a mudhole pretending to be a frog.
(d) by putting on his wife's dress.

4. What does Brer Rabbit use to keep Brer Fox from catching him in Miss Meadows' chimney?
(a) he spits rabbit tobacco in his eye.
(b) he drops on Brer Fox's head and knocks him out.
(c) he tosses down soot from the chimney.
(d) he climbs out the top and jumps off the roof.

5. Why does Uncle Remus say he cannot tell the boy Mr. Man's real name?
(a) no one ever called the man by his real name.
(b) it might embarrass the man if people know who he is.
(c) it is a big secret who the man is.
(d) either no one ever told him or that he can't remember.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the little boy grows up and has his own son, what does Uncle Remus say about the training the boy gets from his mother?

2. What tale by Uncle Remus probably causes the accusation of racism leveled at Joel Chandler Harris?

3. In Crazy Sue's story, why did the raccoon pretend to be dead?

4. what social event do the little boy and Uncle Remus attend?

5. Why does Uncle Remus finish the tale of Brer Rabbit and the tar baby on another night?

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