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