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