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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the neighbor's dog?
(a) McCray.
(b) Burton.
(c) Lobo.
(d) Hill.

2. How does Ben react when the neighbor's dog charges him?
(a) Smacks it on the nose.
(b) Runs and hides.
(c) Drops to all fours and whines.
(d) Screams and kicks at it.

3. After the initial digging, the badger moves away and begins to dig again at what distance from the first site?
(a) 360 yards.
(b) Two feet.
(c) A mile.
(d) Fifty feet.

4. When Ben cannot be found after lunch, what do his parents initially think may have happened?
(a) He got lost in the fields.
(b) He was kidnapped by Burton.
(c) He was washed away in the stream.
(d) He fell into the well.

5. Normally the badger is a nocturnal animal. Why was she out during the day she encountered Ben?
(a) She smells Ben and is curious to find out what he is.
(b) She needs a great deal of food to produce milk.
(c) She is unable to sleep because her babies are too loud.
(d) She knows a storm is coming and needs to hunt early.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal alarms Ben in his hiding spot during the storm in Chapter Seven?

2. The neighbor is surprised to learn that Ben is six years old, because Ben looks as though he ought to be how old?

3. As far as the townspeople can tell, the new neighbor originally comes from where?

4. In Chapter Three, what animal does Ben most wish he could turn into?

5. After the neighbor leaves, how does Esther MacDonald say she feels about the man?

(see the answer key)

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