A) a neighbor who comes with gossip and wanting a free meal B) a new settler and owner of Old Yeller C) the preacher in the Salt Licks community D) a traveling salesman from Abilene
A) Her dog is going to have Old Yeller's pups. B) She doesn't want Old Yeller to be whipped. C) She wants the townspeople to think a wolf is stealing the food. D) She has a crush on Travis.
A) measles B) typhoid C) diphtheria D) rabies
A) Old Yeller is locked in the barn. B) Travis ties Old Yeller to the fence post. C) Old Yeller sleeps in the boys' room at night. D) He puts him in the corn crib at night.
A) He was beginning to feel the stress of being the man of the family. B) He was losing his self-confidence. C) He couldn't put up with Little Arliss's tantrums any longer. D) He was anxious to get the horse his father promised him.
A) Arliss can have Old Yeller until his pa returns. B) Arliss can have Old Yeller for a milking cow. C) Arliss can have Old Yeller if his mother will invite him to dinner. D) Arliss can have Old Yeller for all the bugs and snakes in his pocket.
A) He is so relieved he could cry and doesn’t want anyone to see him crying. B) He is so upset about Old Yeller being taken that he might cry. C) He is embarrassed about the way Little Arliss was acting. D) He is so angry at Mr. Sanderson that he wants to hit him.
A) his father's failure to return when he'd promised B) his belief Burn Sanderson would take Old Yeller back C) Burn Sanderson's warning about the hydrophobia plague D) spotting a fox that was acting unnaturally
A) He is looking forward to it. B) He is afraid, but he knows he has to do it. C) He thinks it is a time consuming job and whines about it to Mama. D) He is terrified and tries to find a way out of doing it.
A) Each group of pigs is kept in a different field. B) Each pig has a different series of notches cut in its ears. C) Each pig has a collar with the family’s name. D) Each pig is branded with a different branding iron.
A) He would chase them into a cave, and Old Yeller would stand by him. B) He would steer them into a pen, and have Old Yeller keep them there. C) He would scatter them in different areas of the woods so he could brand them one at a time. D) He would climb a tree, and Old Yeller would keep them close so he could lift them up one at a time.
A) the pine forest B) the roaring river C) the swallows’ nests D) the bat caves
A) He turns around and is rammed in the back by a hog. B) He gets into the middle of the boars and tries to get the piglets away. C) He stands on a cliff where the earth is not stable and falls into the center of the boars. D) He is backed next to a cliff by the boars and has no way of escaping.
A) He found the hogs feeding on a cow's carcass. B) The dirt bank he was on gave way, and a wild hog slashed his leg. C) He was pulled off the bank by a huge hog he'd roped. D) Old Yeller chased a wolf that was stalking the hogs.
A) He burned ticks off Yeller. B) He did all of these things. C) He gave Old Yeller a bath. D) He covered him with bacon grease.
A) He heard him bark. B) He saw his paw prints. C) He saw buzzards circling. D) He heard him whine.
A) He was really scared. B) She would fix Travis’s cut. C) She would know what to do. D) He needed her to find Yeller.
A) the prickly pear spines B) Yeller’s frantic barking C) the blood hammering in his ears D) the smell of a skunk
A) breathing skunk scent B) sleeping in the cornfield C) rubbing turpentine on your chest D) eating fresh watermelon
A) Old Yeller was responsible for making Spot behave in both cases. B) Spot kicked Travis away from her during both. C) Travis had to bribe her with some fresh corn on both occasions. D) Travis had to use a strap on her to get her to do what he wanted both times.
A) rogue B) solemn C) liable D) entrails
A) embedded B) inquired C) sumptuous D) gnarled
A) gnarled B) coaxed C) sumptuous D) solemn
A) gnarled B) embedded C) coaxed D) inquired
A) rogue B) mournful C) solemn D) sumptuous
A) coaxed B) liable C) embedded D) entrails
A) entrails B) coaxed C) gnarled D) rogue
A) mournful B) gnarled C) solemn D) liable
A) coaxed B) solemn C) embedded D) inquired
A) liable B) coaxed C) inquired D) gnarled |