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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Brer Rabbit cause the other critters' plan to trap him to backfire?
(a) he plays along and then runs away fast as a horse.
(b) he brings his fiddle along and plays a tune for them.
(c) he overhears them and tricks them into going to Miss Meadows's house.
(d) he challenges them to a dance off contest.

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

3. What repulsive thing does Brer Rabbit do with Grinny, Granny Wolf?
(a) dresses her up as a lion and scares Brer Wolf.
(b) boils her and tricks Brer wolf into eating her.
(c) tells her the bees have all left the honey tree.
(d) ties her to a tree near an ant hill.

4. What tale does Uncle Remus tell about Brer Rabbit and Unk Moon?
(a) how Mr. Man cures Unk Moon of his illness.
(b) how Brer Rabbit decides to live on the moon.
(c) messages Brer Rabbit delivers between Mr. Man and the moon.
(d) how the critters take big bites out of the moon.

5. What does the little boy's mother think about Uncle Remus' stories?
(a) they are good education for the boy.
(b) they should be written down.
(c) they keep the boy from underfoot.
(d) the aren't true.

6. After listening to Brer Rabbit recount this conversation with Manny-Bammy-Big-Money, what does Brer Lion do?
(a) thanks Brer Rabbit for trying to help him.
(b) calls for a bowl of turtle soup.
(c) jumps out of bed cured of his burns.
(d) calls for the hide of Brer Fox.

7. What does the boy's grandmother, Miss Sally, think of Uncle Remus' stories?
(a) they are out of date.
(b) they are worth listening to.
(c) they are so much nonsense.
(d) they are like the hair on a tarrapin's shell.

8. 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?
(a) he calls it aboriginal training.
(b) he calls it absent minded training.
(c) he calls it abnormal training.
(d) he calls it absolute training.

9. For the bear hunt, what arrangements does Brer Rabbit make to fool Brer Fox and Brer Wolf?
(a) he sets up everything with Brer Bear ahead of time.
(b) he tells Mr. Man to be there with his gun.
(c) he digs a hole for them to fall in.
(d) he cuts the ropes on their bear trap.

10. What does Uncle Remus mean when he talks about the "behime" wheels of a wagon?
(a) he means the bottom wheels.
(b) he means the biggest wheels.
(c) he means the rear wheels.
(d) he means the slow wheels.

11. What is the only thing on the plantation that the little boy is afraid of?
(a) the deep water well.
(b) the old Shanghai rooster.
(c) the blacksmith's shack.
(d) his father's hunting dog.

12. Who tells a slightly different story about the lion from Aunt Tempy's story?
(a) Miss Sally.
(b) Daddy Jack.
(c) Uncle Remus.
(d) Tildy.

13. Where does the little boy say he has a laughing place?
(a) under his bed.
(b) in his storm cellar.
(c) where Uncle Remus is.
(d) behind a big oak tree.

14. What does the fox try to do to the mud turtle?
(a) turn him on his back.
(b) pull him from the mud.
(c) get him out of his shell.
(d) tie him to a tree.

15. What childhood story had been denied the little boy, keeping the wings of his imagination clipped?
(a) Aesop's Fables.
(b) the story of Santa Claus.
(c) Grimm's Fairytales.
(d) The Little Prince.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brer Rabbit scare the tiger away?

2. What does the Teenchy Duck find that was taken from him?

3. How does Brer Wolf attempt to entice Brer Rabbit to come near him?

4. Why does Uncle Remus say he sometimes groans?

5. What gives Brer Rabbit the idea to play a trick with a barrel of hot water?

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