Bouki Over a Barrel

What are the names of the two main characters in the story?

• Bouki and Brer Rabbit

• Brer Rabbit and Lapin

• Lapin and Bouki

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What does the author want us to know about Bouki's size?

• Bouki is rich

• Bouki is big

• Bouki is the same size as Lapin

• Bouki is not smart

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When describing Bouki, the author says he is smart.

• True

• False

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"He owned a farming field full of Delta soil so rich that if you planted a penny at sunrise, you could pick a dollar before sundown." What is this quote trying to get the reader to understand?

• Bouki owns land that is perfect for farming

• Bouki grows money on his land.

• Bouki is rich so he doesn't have to work

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What does the author mean when he says, "Now Compere Lapin wasn't but knee-high to a blackberry bush"?

• Lapin is large.

• Lapin is heavy built.

• Lapin is small.

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How would you describe Lapin's inside trait?

• skinny

• itchy

• lazy

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What is the non-literal meaning of "cotton bolls started popping out around Bouki as far as he could see, like firecrackers on New Year's Eve"?

• Cotton bolls were popping in the sky like firecrackers.

• Cotton was growing in Bouki's field and there was a lot of it.

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What does the word surveyed mean?

• Look carefully and thoroughly at

• Did not give any attention to

• To live through an event

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What was the deal that Lapin and Bouki agreed on?

• Lapin would buy rum cake and butter and Bouki would pick cotton.

• Lapin would eat all of the rum cake and Bouki would do all the work.

• Lapin would help Bouki pick cotton and Bouki would give Lapin half of it.

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What happened in the story that let the reader know that Lapin was being dishonest about hearing his sister call him to a baptism?

• Lapin hopped off to the store and charged a nice fat barrel of sweet rum cake to Bouki's account.

• Lapin didn't go to any baptism. He headed straight for the bayou and that barrel of butter.

• Lapin stashed the cake and butter under the cool bank of the bayou so the butter wouldn't melt.

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