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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. What results when the chimney falls in?
(a) the cricket gets elbows on his legs.
(b) the man freezes to death.
(c) the birds loos their nests.
(d) the fox loses his hair.

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

3. In Crazy Sue's story, why did the raccoon pretend to be dead?
(a) to catch a frog.
(b) to hide from his wife.
(c) to escape from the wolf.
(d) to fool a buzzard.

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

5. What Uncle Remus story shocks the little boy?
(a) How a Ghost Visited Brer Fox.
(b) How Miss Meadows Killed Brer Rabbit.
(c) How Brer Rabbit Died.
(d) How a Witch Was Caught.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal turns out to be the Creature With No Claws?

2. What does the little boy tell Uncle Remus he wishes he could do?

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

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

5. Why does Uncle Remus say the guineas stay awake all night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What tale does Uncle Remus tell his young boy helper when the boy begins to tire of turning the grinding wheel?

8. What is the lesson of the Doodang?

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

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

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