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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Old Man try to help the animal looking for its mother?
(a) Making noises.
(b) Crying to it.
(c) Singing to it.
(d) Whispering to it.

2. What is the best part of November to Bobby?
(a) His school.
(b) His books.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) Quail season.

3. Where do the Old Man and Bobby stop on the way home because these places have special memories for the Old Man?
(a) Pools.
(b) Churches.
(c) Forests.
(d) Creeks.

4. What does Bobby ask for as his gift at Christmas?
(a) Shotgun shells.
(b) Coloring supplies.
(c) Canterbury Tales.
(d) Bicycle helmet.

5. What kinds of stories does the Old Man tell Bobby in Chapter 16?
(a) Realistic.
(b) Mythology.
(c) Nautical.
(d) News.

6. Where does Bobby say that he learned everything he knows in Chapter 25?
(a) Old Man.
(b) School.
(c) Life.
(d) Father.

7. What used to cost five cents apiece and now is very expensive according to the Old Man in Chapter 27?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Terrapin.
(c) Duck.
(d) Goose.

8. Who promises to not die on the opening day of hunting season in the last chapter?
(a) Old Man.
(b) Bobby.
(c) Spencer.
(d) Howard.

9. What does Bobby have to do to get the animal the Old Man purchased for him to enter the cow pen?
(a) Blind it and push it inside.
(b) Throw it over the fence.
(c) Bribe it with sugar.
(d) Make it sleepy and carry it in.

10. What does Bobby consider nonsense in Chapter 22?
(a) Faust.
(b) Chaucer.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Spencer.

11. What does the Old Man first say that he envies Bobby for in Chapter 25?
(a) Being a boy.
(b) Being jobless.
(c) Being silly.
(d) Being carefree.

12. As he has gotten older, what does the Old Man think he does not have to do as much?
(a) Fight.
(b) Cook and clean.
(c) Answer the phone.
(d) Try as hard.

13. What does the Old Man want to do with the remaining years of his life?
(a) Enjoy it.
(b) Study.
(c) Stay busy.
(d) Help others.

14. What is the Old Man's favorite month to hunt?
(a) September.
(b) March.
(c) November.
(d) January.

15. What does the lost animal do after hearing the Old Man?
(a) Approach him.
(b) Run away.
(c) Growl.
(d) Hide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Old Man tell Bobby that he can never get back in Chapter 26?

2. What shooting did Bobby do by intention that he admits?

3. Whose cooking does Bobby enjoy tremendously over the years?

4. What does the Old Man say that they will never hunt?

5. What two things does the Old Man find terrible about the kind of hunting he finds crazy?

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