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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. What happens to the fox in Miss Tempy's Story of the hungry rabbit and fox?
(a) the fox eats the rabbit's grandmother.
(b) the fox eats the rabbit's babies.
(c) the fox gets the food.
(d) the fox ends up dead.

2. How does Uncle Remus say the fox got black legs?
(a) walking on fresh pavement.
(b) falling into the tar he used to make the tar baby.
(c) falling asleep in the hole where the sun goes down.
(d) wading through the muddy pond.

3. How does the rabbit explain the disappearance of the horses and cart to the wolf?
(a) hehides the cart and shoos the horses away.
(b) he holds two horse tails buried in the sand.
(c) he bloodies his nose and says robbers came.
(d) he plays unconcsious as though he were attacked.

4. What gives Brer Rabbit the idea to play a trick with a barrel of hot water?
(a) watching Mr. Man clean the hair off of slaughtered hogs.
(b) watching how hot rocks make the water hot in a barrel.
(c) watching the hogs clean up.
(d) watching Mr. Man take a hot bath.

5. What upsets the little boy about the possum and the missing butter?
(a) the possum made it look like the wolf ate the butter.
(b) the possum dies when he wasn't guilty of eating it.
(c) the possum did not get any butter to eat.
(d) Brer Rabbit told a lie about the possum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Brer Fox sit under a sycamore with his mouth open?

2. In Daddy Jack's story, why does the Snake eat the woman's baby?

3. In the tale, Brother Fox and the White Muscadines, what happens after Brer Rabbit helps him climb a tree?

4. What does Aunt Tempy think about African Jack's talk about spirits?

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

(see the answer key)

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