Soft Rain Test

"Do you want a story now?" (p. 10)

• Pet

• Grandmother

• Big Boots

• her teacher

"Out of the wagons. Everyone into the stockade!" (p. 34)

• Old Roving Man

• Big Boots

• Green Fern

• Grandmother

Which of the following can be considered the main problem of the story?

• Soft Rain's family's corn wont grow well

• the Tsalagi people are being forced to move West

• Mother wont let her attend white man's school anymore

• Grandmother is blind and there is no cure

Who was the first person to tell Soft Rain her people may have to move West?

• her teacher

• The Young Chief

• Little People

• Big Boots

What did Soft Rain most want to remember about her Grandmother?

• her cooking

• her stories

• her doll

• her garden

What happened to Green Fern?

• She got left behind with Old Roving Man

• She drown crossing the Mississippi River

• She got the coughing disease and died.

• She got to Oklahoma before them

Of these characters who helped Soft Rain the most on the difficult journey?

• Big Boots

• The Young Chief

• Old Roving Man

• Grandmother

Which genre would the novel Soft Rain be (hint- it uses real events that happened but is set around a fictional family)

• Non-Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Fantasy

• Adventure

What was the author's purpose in writing "Soft Rain"?

• To inform people about the Trail of Tears

• To remember her childhood

• To entertain with the story of a young girl and her family

• To inform people how to travel by foot to Oklahoma

Which of the following is the Tsalagi word for corn?

• Selu

• Unakas

• Nemehi

• Chungke