The Education of Little Tree Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Asa Earl Carter
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 239 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Education of Little Tree Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Asa Earl Carter
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 239 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the visitor's ambitions contrast with the values of Granpa and Granma?
(a) The visitor wants quick riches but Granpa and Granma prefer to get rich by selling crops.
(b) The visitor wants to get easy money but Granpa and Granma know they own inherited land so they need no schemes to get rich.
(c) The visitor is intent on getting rich while Granpa and Granma have no interest in having more than they need to survive.
(d) The visitor wants money but Granma and Granpa don't want to be rich, they just want to protect Little Tree's inheritance.

2. According to Chapter 3, how does Granpa feel about politicians and authority figures?
(a) Granpa believes politicians and authority figures are necessary to keep order.
(b) Granpa likes to hear about politicians and authority figures.
(c) Granpa is afraid of politicians and authority figures.
(d) Granpa does not like politicians and authority figures.

3. How does Chapter 2 end?
(a) With a poem about the sunrise on the mountain.
(b) With a poem about Mon-o-lah and The Way.
(c) With a poem about the animals.
(d) With a poem about love of nature.

4. How does the author use contrast to show different lifestyles and characters in Chapter 7?
(a) The author contrasts the plow with the fast black car driven by the visitor.
(b) The author describes the mountain and then changes the setting to the busy square at the settlement.
(c) The author describes the routine, laborious work on the land and later shows readers a colorful visitor talking about cars, criminals and money-making schemes.
(d) The author brings the excited policeman dressed in his city clothes into the cabin where everyone is calm and dressed in traditional clothes.

5. Where does Granma get books to read to Little Tree and Granpa?
(a) Little Tree and Granpa collect them from the library at the settlement.
(b) Granma reads books that Little Tree brings them from the school at the settlement.
(c) Granma buys books at the settlement store.
(d) Granma reads books that Little Tree brought with him from his parents' home.

6. What is Little Tree's responsibility in producing the whiskey?
(a) He helps to bottle the whiskey.
(b) He helps to carry the whiskey to the store.
(c) He helps to stir and clean the pot.
(d) He helps to pour the sugar in the whiskey.

7. What two important characteristics of Granpa are revealed by the description of the fox and the hounds episode?
(a) Granpa's speed and agility.
(b) Granpa's love for swimming and diving.
(c) Grandpa's great ability to catch foxes and control the hounds.
(d) His immense respect for nature and animals and his sense of humor.

8. Why does the author show that important lessons for Little Tree come from Granma and not Granpa?
(a) To show that both his grandparents play equally important roles in shaping his development.
(b) To show that there is a bond between Granma and Little Tree that does not exist between Little Tree and Granpa.
(c) To show that Granpa has no spiritual side so Granma has to do it.
(d) To show that Granma is more knowledgeable about important things.

9. How do the Cherokee who escape from the soldiers into the hollows survive?
(a) They journey to the neighboring village and set up a camp.
(b) They hide on the other side of the mountain and survive by hunting deer.
(c) They live in caves and survive by fishing in the nearby creek.
(d) They live off fishing, wild game and sweet root and stay as silent as they can to avoid detection.

10. How does Granpa teach Little Tree respect for the small creatures in Chapter 8?
(a) To catch the tadpoles and place them in a jar for safety.
(b) To stay away from the spiders and the frogs.
(c) To set the spiders back in the ferns when they fall into the water.
(d) To avoid disturbing the frogs' songs by walking on tiptoes.

11. In Chapter 7, Little Tree's grandparents place emphasis on teaching him some more very important skills. Why do they do this?
(a) They want to make sure he will be a good father.
(b) They are making sure that Little Tree learns enough to be self-sufficient off the land.
(c) They want to make sure he learns about his tribe's habits.
(d) They want to make sure he will be able to take care of them soon.

12. According to Little Tree, why do the white mountain men in the area respect Granpa?
(a) For his love of nature.
(b) Because he is knowledgeable about the mountains.
(c) For his skills at trailing animals and his sense of instinct.
(d) For the lessons he teaches Little Tree.

13. In Chapter 2, who has just died when Little Tree's relatives argue about where he should live?
(a) Red Wing.
(b) Pa.
(c) Willow John.
(d) Little Tree's mother.

14. Who is Smokehouse and what role does he play in Chapter 7?
(a) The partner who works with the visitor to write the entry for the competition.
(b) The friend who gives the visitor a ride to the cabin.
(c) A half-Cherokee who burns wood for the coal oil lamp.
(d) The policeman who investigates the claim made by the visitor about an alleged criminal.

15. What does the woman in the black car ask when she stops Little Tree and Granpa on their way back from the settlement?
(a) The way to the church.
(b) The way to Chattanooga.
(c) The way to the cabin.
(d) If they want a ride home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the reader deduce about the author's intention in describing Cherokee beliefs and values in Chapter 8?

2. What reason does Granpa suggest as the only logical explanation for this law of George Washington's that makes him so angry?

3. Granma accidentally reads about a law introduced by George Washington and this gets Granpa very angry. What law is this?

4. Why does Granpa enjoy hunting even though he has never killed a fox in his life?

5. How does Granpa help Little Tree overcome feeling empty and sad after Ringer's death?

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