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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Brer Rabbit get the fox to chase a wagon?
(a) telling him that he will get money for chasing the wagon.
(b) telling him that chickens fall from the wagon.
(c) telling him that the wagon is filled with money.
(d) telling him money will fall from the wheels rubbing together.

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

3. what social event do the little boy and Uncle Remus attend?
(a) tea time at Miss Sally's.
(b) a church meeting on the plantation.
(c) the marriage of Tildy and Jack.
(d) a story telling contest.

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 Mr. Man take a hot bath.
(c) watching how hot rocks make the water hot in a barrel.
(d) watching the hogs clean up.

5. What is the story of Mr. Lion and his wool an example of in the Uncle Remus stories?
(a) explaining why animals look the way they do.
(b) jokes Uncle Remus plays on the little boy's mind.
(c) Uncle Remus's lack of imagination.
(d) using animals that inhabit the southern states.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the tale, A Fool for Luck, what amazes the man as he watches?

2. What location do all the animals want to know about?

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

4. What is Uncle Remus' explanation for why the turkey buzzard is bald?

5. How is Brer Rabbit's idea of sewing the dog's mouth shut like the Aesop fable of the Mice and the Cat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Relate Uncle Remus's tale about duplicity on the part of the bear in dealing with the alligator.

2. Who are Crazy Sue, Lillian, and Lucien?

3. Describe Brer Rabbit's invitation to the other animals to a barbecue.

4. What is the influence that the little boy's mother relies on in bring up the boy thereby affecting his imagination?

5. What is Uncle Remus' response when the little boy asks when once upon a time is?

6. What is the boy's poignant declaration about his laughing place?

7. Explain how Uncle Remus relates superstitious ideas about scientific phenomena.

8. How does Brer Rabbit describe his wife's behavior as he visits with Brer Wolf and Brer Fox?

9. How does Brer Bear and his family get chased out of their house?

10. In the story of the witch-wolf, explain why she wanted to marry a man.

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