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