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

2. What is the message of "The Creetures Go to the Barbecue"?
(a) the need to find out who is throwing the barbecue.
(b) the need to get to the barbecue first.
(c) the need to get an invitation to the barbecue.
(d) the need to find ou what is being barbecued.

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

4. How is Brer Rabbit's idea of sewing the dog's mouth shut like the Aesop fable of the Mice and the Cat?
(a) rabbits and mice have no fingers to use for sewing.
(b) no one wnts to do the sewing like no one would bell the cat.
(c) mice fear the dog in one story and the cat in the other.
(d) the dog never closes his mouth like the cat.

5. In what way does Uncle Remus personify the elements?
(a) he tells about how the dust runs on two legs.
(b) he describes the dust as sneezing.
(c) he talks about Brer Dust and Cousin Rain.
(d) he talks about rain making mud.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Uncle Remus describe the buzzard's breakfast of dead hawk?

2. What plan does Brer Rabbit have that makes Brer Fox and Brer Wolf laugh?

3. How does Mr. Lion get into the barrel of hot water?

4. Who replaces Brer Rabbit as king of the creatures?

5. What results when the chimney falls in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the preposterous provisions Teenchy-Tiny duck makes to try and retrieve her bag of gold?

3. What is the lesson of the Doodang?

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

5. What is the folklore Uncle Remus tells the boy about the cricket?

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

7. Relate the explanation Uncle Remus has for the craters on the moon.

8. What is the evidence that the little boy's mother does not approve of Uncle Remus' tales?

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

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

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