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