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

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

3. When the storyteller changes, who tells tales to children named Lillian and Lucien?
(a) Uncle Rodger.
(b) African Jack.
(c) Aunt Tildy.
(d) Crazy Sue.

4. How does Uncle Remus account for the craters on the moon?
(a) as whiskers on Unk Moon.
(b) as scars from Unk Moon's illness.
(c) as worry lines on the face of Unk Moon.
(d) as scratches made by Brer Rabbit.

5. Why do Brer Fox and Brer Wolf not run away when they hear Brer Bear coming?
(a) they think it is only the wind they hear.
(b) they are paralyzed by fear.
(c) for fear they would be laughed at for cowardice.
(d) they get their feet stuck in some tar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the goat scare away the wolf?

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

3. According to Uncle Remus, what did folks always have to pass no matter where they were going a long time ago?

4. What does Uncle Remus say the animals don't know the difference about?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the little boy stymied in his efforts to slip up on Uncle Remus to scare him?

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

3. What Aesop fable is similar to Uncle Remus's tale, Brother Rabbit Takes a Walk?

4. How does the preacher man expose the miller man's wife as a witch?

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

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

7. Describe the secret of Brer Rabbit's laughing place.

8. How does Brer Rabbit get the other animals to work hard digging holes?

9. How does Uncle Remus convince the boy that Brer Rabbit sometimes was not the smartest creature in the whole creation?

10. Who is the company everyone tells the blacksmith he is going to have soon?

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