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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the boys do in the cave?
(a) Clean their guns.
(b) Look at pictures of nude women.
(c) Play cards.
(d) Smoke cigarettes.

2. How long does it take for Ownby to show up at the store and for Gifford to arrest him?
(a) About a week.
(b) A couple of days.
(c) One day.
(d) About a month.

3. Who hears the wildcat's final death scream?
(a) John Wesley.
(b) Mr. Eller.
(c) Ownby.
(d) Mildred.

4. What dead animal does the large cat find?
(a) Mink.
(b) Deer.
(c) Dog.
(d) Rabbit.

5. How old was Mildred Rattner when she died?
(a) 29.
(b) 45.
(c) 65.
(d) 39.

Short Answer Questions

1. Uncle Ather tells the boys about a time when he caught a _______________.

2. How much does Warn say the mink would have been worth had it not been mangled?

3. Which of the following boys does John Wesley encounter?

4. Why does Gifford want to see Sylder?

5. Why does Sylder feel a strong sense of doom as he tries to fall asleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the boys that John Wesley meets and what do they do?

2. How does Arthur stand firm in an attempt to evade the police and find an even more isolated location?

3. What happens to the Rattners by the end of the story?

4. What is the significance of cats in the story?

5. How else might the irony of Sylder and John Wesley's friendship be interpreted?

6. Why does Sylder stop at Officer Gifford's house on the way home from a whiskey run?

7. In addition to his traps, what does Warn point out to the other boys?

8. Why does Gifford focus his question about Ownby on a storekeep named Huffaker?

9. How is Sylder finally apprehended for bootlegging?

10. Why is Sylder's toe injury probably unrelated to a war injury?

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