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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Brer Wolf attempt to entice Brer Rabbit to come near him?
(a) he tells Brer Rabbit he found one of his children.
(b) he asks Brer Rabbit to being a new shovel.
(c) he plays like he hurt himself digging for gold.
(d) he claims he found the gold mine.

2. What does the little boy tell Uncle Remus he wishes he could do?
(a) fly.
(b) catch chickens.
(c) jump into the briar patch.
(d) growl.

3. When the stories change a bit, what does the little boy wonder about?
(a) why the animals don't talk like before.
(b) why Brer Rabbit is not the hero any longer.
(c) why the stories are not about animals anymore.
(d) why the stories are all so sad.

4. According to Uncle Remus, what did folks always have to pass no matter where they were going a long time ago?
(a) the haunted house.
(b) the judge's house.
(c) the blacksmith shop.
(d) the little brown church.

5. What does the terrapin say about what he learned from the buzzard?
(a) he needs help to get off the ground.
(b) he prefers flying to swimming.
(c) he never learned to fly.
(d) he can fly but he can't land.

6. What causes the man to pour hot water down the chimney?
(a) the cricket's music.
(b) the fox trapped inside.
(c) bird nests in the chimney.
(d) the soot in the chimney.

7. What is Uncle Remus' explanation about why dogs sniff in the air?
(a) what the rabbit did to them while he was king for a day.
(b) to keep the dust out of their noses.
(c) trying to find where meat is hanging from a tree.
(d) because they have poor eyesight.

8. Tracking the squirrels, what does the man find?
(a) corn and cabbage.
(b) bees and trees.
(c) nuts and bolts.
(d) money and honey.

9. What does Uncle Remus say to the boy after the tale of the Doodang and he still wishes he could fly?
(a) to try jumping off the roof of his house.
(b) to think hard and grow feathers.
(c) to ask his mammy how to fly.
(d) to fly to his mammy right then.

10. Which animal was the only one not tricked out of the butter by Brer Weasel?
(a) Brer Rabbit.
(b) Brer Bear.
(c) Brer Possum.
(d) Brer Tarrypin.

11. What does the Teenchy Duck find that was taken from him?
(a) gold in California.
(b) a purse of money in the river.
(c) a carpet bag big enough to hide a fox.
(d) a new suit of clothes hanging on a tree.

12. 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) wading through the muddy pond.
(d) falling asleep in the hole where the sun goes down.

13. Why does Brer Rabbit say he is running away from Brer Wolf and the gold mine?
(a) to get a shovel and a pick.
(b) to bring his family to help collect the gold.
(c) to tell Mr. Man there is gold on his property.
(d) to get a bag to hold the gold Brer Wolf leaves behind.

14. After promising to nurse baby alligators, what does the bear do?
(a) he eats their mama.
(b) he sells them.
(c) he eats them.
(d) he leaves them alone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brer Rabbit scare the tiger away?

2. According to Aunt Tempy, how does the wolf get into the meeting of the horned cattle?

3. What does the buzzard say he can show anyone interested?

4. What fool's errand does Brer Rabbit send Brer Bear on when he is cornered on top of a big rock?

5. How does the small cricket cause the animals to run?

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