A) Abilene, Kansas 1600s B) 1902 Oklahoma C) 1849 Gold Rush California D) Texas in the 1860s
A) He wanders onto their place. B) He is a gift from Papa. C) He is given to them by a neighbor. D) Travis catches him in their drinking water.
A) to sell cattle at Abilene, Kansas B) to sell cattle at the Salt Licks C) to join in the Civil War D) to buy cattle at Abilene, Kansas
A) “Then later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks.” B) “All of which, I figure, is what lead up to Little Arliss catching the bear.” C) “He was too scared and too mad.” D) “We never once thought about being in any real danger.”
A) bossy B) all of these C) strong willed D) curious
A) He was able to find himself a new home. B) He was able to catch fish by jumping on it in the creek. C) He was still alive after being a stray in the wild. D) He was able to get meat hanging from the rafters.
A) fight with a copperhead B) a bite from a dead rattlesnake C) a cut from a javelina's tushes D) a run-in with a panther
A) He used Yeller to make him mind. B) He used the bull whip make him mind. C) He used the reins to make him mind. D) He used a club to make him mind.
A) your movement B) your scent C) your gun D) your shape
A) a type of wild hog B) a type of wild bear C) a type of wild bull D) a type of wild bird
A) a family of bob whites B) a pair of playful squirrels C) a group of javelinas D) a mama bear and cub
A) He wasn’t a good shot. B) He didn’t want her to suffer. C) He didn’t like to eat venison. D) She was pretty and harmless.
A) throwing rocks at the stray dog B) telling the dog to sic the bulls C) teaching Arliss how to throw rocks D) watching the bulls fight
A) to stop catching all living creatures B) to kill all the snakes he could find C) to find fat horny toads instead D) to tell the difference between venomous and nonvenomous snakes
A) He was worried that Arliss might drown. B) He wanted Arliss to stay out of the drinking water. C) He didn’t want Arliss to scare all the fish away. D) He wanted Arliss to stay out to the water for the crops.
A) simile B) personification C) metaphor D) hyperbole
A) He was afraid that he would spoil their show. B) He was afraid Old Yeller would get into their house. C) He was afraid Arliss would run after Yeller. D) He was afraid that Old Yeller would get hurt.
A) to stop the bulls from tearing down their place B) to stop the She Bear from getting Old Yeller C) to stop Little Arliss from playing in the drinking water D) to stop Old Yeller from eating more meat
A) Chongo pushed Roany into a cart. B) Roany burnt his tongue on a wheel. C) Roany fell into Birdsong Creek. D) Chonga was injured by the other bull’s horn.
A) a hammer and wedges B) a saw and an axe C) a hammer and an axe D) an axe and wedges
A) by the screech of the panther B) by the sound of his scream C) by the roar of the bear D) by the yell of Old Yeller
A) when he was too tired to fight anymore B) when the family was safe C) when the cub ran away to the woods D) when Arliss stopped screaming
A) red bull B) short horn C) droopy horn D) mad bull
A) The whole group of javelinas would run wild in the woods. B) The whole group of javelinas would start shrieking. C) The whole group of javelinas would eat you alive. D) The whole group of javelinas would run away.
A) “Then I made myself get as still as a tree.” B) “…but not once did he ever even act like he could smell the meat we’d hung up.” C) “It was like she suddenly lit down out of the air…” D) “Well, it all wound up about like I figured.”
A) hunt upwind and climb a tree B) hunt downwind and climb a tree C) hunt upwind and be still D) hunt downwind and be still
A) He scares the deer into running into a tree. B) He shots it through the heart. C) He scared the deer into a group of cattle that trample it. D) He shots it through the leg.
A) The She Bear B) Little Arliss and the Bulls C) The Rolling Cart D) Roany and Chongo
A) scared B) sad C) angry D) excited
A) He ran into the deep drinking water of the spring. B) He was able to rough up the She Bear. C) The She Bear chased him into the woods. D) He ran into the house and started to lick them and bark.
A) roan B) clout C) depredation D) shrill
A) clout B) poultice C) sulked D) shrill
A) clout B) sulked C) poultice D) thickets
A) sulked B) withers C) wallowing D) thickets
A) clout B) wallowing C) poultice D) broadside
A) thickets B) poultices C) broadside D) withers
A) clout B) shrill C) roan D) poultice
A) wallowing B) poultice C) withers D) thickets
A) depredation B) thickets C) shrill D) wallowing
A) broadside B) sulked C) poultice D) clout |