Old Yeller Test Ch 6-10 2023 with vocab
  • 1. Who is Bud Searcy? (Pages 44 - 45)
A) a neighbor who comes with gossip and wanting a free meal
B) a traveling salesman from Abilene
C) a new settler and owner of Old Yeller
D) the preacher in the Salt Licks community
  • 2. Why does Lisbeth promise not to tell on Old Yeller for stealing? (Page 48)
A) She wants the townspeople to think a wolf is stealing the food.
B) Her dog is going to have Old Yeller's pups.
C) She has a crush on Travis.
D) She doesn't want Old Yeller to be whipped.
  • 3. What is hydrophobia? (Pages 46-47)
A) measles
B) diphtheria
C) typhoid
D) rabies
  • 4. How does Travis keep Old Yeller from stealing food? (Pages 50-51)
A) Old Yeller is locked in the barn.
B) He puts him in the corn crib at night.
C) Travis ties Old Yeller to the fence post.
D) Old Yeller sleeps in the boys' room at night.
  • 5. During his night of sleeping in the corn, Travis wished his father would come back. What does this show? (Page 52)
A) He couldn't put up with Little Arliss's tantrums any longer.
B) He was losing his self-confidence.
C) He was anxious to get the horse his father promised him.
D) He was beginning to feel the stress of being the man of the family.
  • 6. What trade does Burn Sanderson make with Little Arliss? (Page 62)
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.
  • 7. Why does Travis get out of the area with Burn Sanderson in a hurry? (Page 62)
A) He is so angry at Mr. Sanderson that he wants to hit him.
B) He is so relieved he could cry and doesn’t want anyone to see him crying.
C) He is so upset about Old Yeller being taken that he might cry.
D) He is embarrassed about the way Little Arliss was acting.
  • 8. What caused Travis to have nightmares? (Page 65)
A) his belief Burn Sanderson would take Old Yeller back
B) his father's failure to return when he'd promised
C) spotting a fox that was acting unnaturally
D) Burn Sanderson's warning about the hydrophobia plague
  • 9. How does Travis feel about marking the hogs? (Page 68)
A) He is looking forward to it.
B) He is terrified and tries to find a way out of doing it.
C) He is afraid, but he knows he has to do it.
D) He thinks it is a time consuming job and whines about it to Mama.
  • 10. How can each farmer tell if a pig belongs to him? (Page 71)
A) Each pig has a different series of notches cut in its ears.
B) Each group of pigs is kept in a different field.
C) Each pig has a collar with the family’s name.
D) Each pig is branded with a different branding iron.
  • 11. What was Travis's method of gathering up the pigs? (Page 70-71)
A) He would climb a tree, and Old Yeller would keep them close so he could lift them up one at a time.
B) He would chase them into a cave, and Old Yeller would stand by him.
C) He would scatter them in different areas of the woods so he could brand them one at a time.
D) He would steer them into a pen, and have Old Yeller keep them there.
  • 12. What special thing does Travis want to see on the other side of Salt Branch? (Page 74)
A) the swallows’ nests
B) the pine forest
C) the bat caves
D) the roaring river
  • 13. What mistake does Travis make when he is marking the pigs? (Page 77)
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.
  • 14. What happened during Travis's last hog roping excursion? (Page 77)
A) The dirt bank he was on gave way, and a wild hog slashed his leg.
B) Old Yeller chased a wolf that was stalking the hogs.
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.
  • 15. How did Travis show Yeller that he loved him? (Page 41)
A) He did all of these things.
B) He gave Old Yeller a bath.
C) He covered him with bacon grease.
D) He burned ticks off Yeller.
  • 16. How did Travis find Old Yeller after the hog fight? (Page 79)
A) He saw his paw prints.
B) He heard him bark.
C) He saw buzzards circling.
D) He heard him whine.
  • 17. Why did Travis want to get momma? (Page 80)
A) She would fix Travis’s cut.
B) He was really scared.
C) He needed her to find Yeller.
D) She would know what to do.
  • 18. What brought Travis “out of his scare” after the hog fight? (Page 78)
A) the prickly pear spines
B) the blood hammering in his ears
C) Yeller’s frantic barking
D) the smell of a skunk
  • 19. What did Papa say was the best way to cure a head cold? (Page 54)
A) rubbing turpentine on your chest
B) eating fresh watermelon
C) breathing skunk scent
D) sleeping in the cornfield
  • 20. What did the incident where Spot was brought home after calving have in common with the one where she was milked for the first time? (Pages 56 and 58)
A) Travis had to use a strap on her to get her to do what he wanted both times.
B) Spot kicked Travis away from her during both.
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.
  • 21. _________- somebody mischievous
    “Why that old __________________!”
    embedded
A) liable
B) rogue
C) solemn
D) entrails
  • 22. _________- twisted and full of knots
    “Then I turned and headed for a big _________ liveoak tree that stood in a clear patch of ground down the draw apiece.”
A) inquired
B) sumptuous
C) embedded
D) gnarled
  • 23. ________- being serious in appearance or behavior
    “Lisbeth slipped to the ground and stood staring at me with those big ___________ eyes while her grandpa dismounted.”
A) solemn
B) gnarled
C) sumptuous
D) coaxed
  • 24. _______________- try to find out facts by asking something
    “He’d____________ around about it in Salt Licks, and Bud Searcy had told him that we had the dog.”
A) embedded
B) inquired
C) gnarled
D) coaxed
  • 25. ___________- magnificent or grand in appearance
    “So in spite of the fact that Little Arliss had caused me to make a bad shot, we had us a real _____________ supper that night.”
A) sumptuous
B) rogue
C) solemn
D) mournful
  • 26. ______________- to become deeply and solidly lodged in something
    “I searched his feet and pulled out a long mesquite thorn that had become ___________between his toes.”
A) entrails
B) liable
C) coaxed
D) embedded
  • 27. __________- an animal’s or person’s internal organs
    “ Carefully, I eased his ____________ back into place.”
A) gnarled
B) entrails
C) rogue
D) coaxed
  • 28. ___________- expressing or feeling deep sadness
    “It was the most ___________ howl I ever heard.”
A) gnarled
B) liable
C) mournful
D) solemn
  • 29. ____________- to persuade somebody gently to do something
    “I knelt beside him and __________ him out from under the rocks.”
A) solemn
B) inquired
C) embedded
D) coaxed
  • 30. ____________- likely to experience or do something
    “They were sure ______________ to shoot him.”
A) coaxed
B) liable
C) gnarled
D) inquired
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