Old Yeller Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter 1

1. How does Travis' family come to get Old Yeller?

2. What are all Texans short of now that the Civil War is over?

3. Why is Travis' father leaving the family for months?

4. Why does Little Arliss cry when his father goes away?

5. What does Travis' father ask him to do while he is away?

6. What does Travis ask his father for before he leaves?

7. What type of dogs do most of the settlers own?

8. How does Travis' dog, Bell, die?

9. Who named Birdsong Creek?

10. What does Travis compare Little Arliss' screaming to?

11. What does Mama make with lye water and hog fat?