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