A) a new settler and owner of Old Yeller B) a neighbor who comes with gossip and wanting a free meal C) a traveling salesman from Abilene D) the preacher in the Salt Licks community
A) She has a crush on Travis. B) She doesn't want Old Yeller to be whipped. C) Her dog is going to have Old Yeller's pups. D) She wants the townspeople to think a wolf is stealing the food.
A) typhoid B) measles C) diphtheria D) rabies
A) Travis ties Old Yeller to the fence post. B) Old Yeller is locked in the barn. C) Old Yeller sleeps in the boys' room at night. D) He puts him in the corn crib at night.
A) He was losing his self-confidence. B) He was beginning to feel the stress of being the man of the family. C) He was anxious to get the horse his father promised him. D) He couldn't put up with Little Arliss's tantrums any longer.
A) Arliss can have Old Yeller for all the bugs and snakes in his pocket. B) Arliss can have Old Yeller until his pa returns. C) Arliss can have Old Yeller for a milking cow. D) Arliss can have Old Yeller if his mother will invite him to dinner.
A) He is so upset about Old Yeller being taken that he might cry. 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 embarrassed about the way Little Arliss was acting.
A) Burn Sanderson's warning about the hydrophobia plague B) his belief Burn Sanderson would take Old Yeller back C) spotting a fox that was acting unnaturally D) his father's failure to return when he'd promised
A) He is afraid, but he knows he has to do it. B) He is looking forward to it. C) He is terrified and tries to find a way out of doing it. D) He thinks it is a time consuming job and whines about it to Mama.
A) Each pig has a different series of notches cut in its ears. B) Each pig has a collar with the family’s name. C) Each pig is branded with a different branding iron. D) Each group of pigs is kept in a different field.
A) He would chase them into a cave, and Old Yeller would stand by him. 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 steer them into a pen, and have Old Yeller keep them there.
A) the roaring river B) the pine forest C) the swallows’ nests D) the bat caves
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 turns around and is rammed in the back by a hog. D) He gets into the middle of the boars and tries to get the piglets away.
A) The dirt bank he was on gave way, and a wild hog slashed his leg. B) He was pulled off the bank by a huge hog he'd roped. C) Old Yeller chased a wolf that was stalking the hogs. D) He found the hogs feeding on a cow's carcass.
A) He covered him with bacon grease. B) He burned ticks off Yeller. C) He did all of these things. D) He gave Old Yeller a bath.
A) He heard him whine. B) He saw his paw prints. C) He heard him bark. D) He saw buzzards circling.
A) He was really scared. B) He needed her to find Yeller. C) She would fix Travis’s cut. D) She would know what to do.
A) the blood hammering in his ears B) the smell of a skunk C) the prickly pear spines D) Yeller’s frantic barking
A) breathing skunk scent B) eating fresh watermelon C) rubbing turpentine on your chest D) sleeping in the cornfield
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) Old Yeller was responsible for making Spot behave in both cases. D) Spot kicked Travis away from her during both.
A) liable B) rogue C) entrails D) solemn
A) sumptuous B) inquired C) gnarled D) embedded
A) coaxed B) solemn C) gnarled D) sumptuous
A) gnarled B) embedded C) inquired D) coaxed
A) solemn B) rogue C) sumptuous D) mournful
A) entrails B) embedded C) coaxed D) liable
A) coaxed B) entrails C) gnarled D) rogue
A) gnarled B) solemn C) liable D) mournful
A) embedded B) solemn C) coaxed D) inquired
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