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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What curious question does the little boy ask about the beginnings of the tales?
(a) why don't things happen the same way today?
(b) when was once upon a time?
(c) when did animals stop talking lik people?
(d) who wrote down all those stories?

2. How does the goat scare away the wolf?
(a) convincing the wolf that his horns are sharp.
(b) convincing the wolf that his brothers are there.
(c) convincing the wolf that the man is coming.
(d) convincing the wolf that he is eating a rock.

3. What message does Brer Rabbit arrange to have everyone deliver to the blacksmith?
(a) that he will receive some money.
(b) that his fire has gone out.
(c) that the hippytamypottimus is coming.
(d) that he will soon have a visitor.

4. Why does Uncle Remus insist that the story of the man and his corn is true?
(a) Miss Sally told him about it.
(b) he saw it with his own eyes.
(c) he was that man.
(d) folks are still talking about it.

5. 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) the dog never closes his mouth like the cat.
(d) mice fear the dog in one story and the cat in the other.

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(b) they are out of date.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

7. 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 the hide of Brer Fox.
(c) calls for a bowl of turtle soup.
(d) jumps out of bed cured of his burns.

8. After promising to nurse baby alligators, what does the bear do?
(a) he leaves them alone.
(b) he eats them.
(c) he eats their mama.
(d) he sells them.

9. When Brer Rabbit takes the man's chickens, who gets the blame?
(a) the weasel.
(b) the fox.
(c) the eagle.
(d) the wolf.

10. What does the buzzard say he can show anyone interested?
(a) the bones of the Doodang.
(b) the nest of the Doodang.
(c) the tail feathers of the Doodang.
(d) the children of the Doodang.

11. How does Brer Wolf attempt to entice Brer Rabbit to come near him?
(a) he asks Brer Rabbit to being a new shovel.
(b) he claims he found the gold mine.
(c) he tells Brer Rabbit he found one of his children.
(d) he plays like he hurt himself digging for gold.

12. What does the buzzard attempt to teach the terrapin?
(a) how to jump.
(b) how to sing.
(c) how to fish.
(d) how to fly.

13. How does the witch-wolf disguised as a woman get found out?
(a) she eats raw meat.
(b) a cow fears her.
(c) she howls at the moon.
(d) her teeth grow long.

14. According to Uncle Remus, what did folks always have to pass no matter where they were going a long time ago?
(a) the judge's house.
(b) the blacksmith shop.
(c) the little brown church.
(d) the haunted house.

15. How does the small cricket cause the animals to run?
(a) by making a hurricane sound in their ears.
(b) by making a sound like a train coming.
(c) by making a sound like a man shooting a gun.
(d) by making a sound like a lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What absurd things does Teenchy-Tiny-Duck have in his bag?

2. In the tale The Little Boy and His Dogs, who does the boy kill?

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

4. What does the fox try to do to the mud turtle?

5. How does Uncle Remus account for the craters on the moon?

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