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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 event at the beginning of Chapter 11 prevents Billy from hunting?
(a) A snow blizzard.
(b) The flu.
(c) Injuries to his dogs.
(d) The end of the hunting season.

2. Why does Billy insist the group look for the dogs rather than wait for them to come back on their own?
(a) He knows Old Dan will never leave a treed raccoon.
(b) They are hunting in an unfamiliar area.
(c) He does not feel confident they can find their way back.
(d) He knows Little Ann will never leave a treed raccoon.

3. Who does Billy's grandfather hold partly responsible for Rubin's death?
(a) The "ghost coon".
(b) Rubin.
(c) Himself.
(d) Billy.

4. What event causes Little Ann to become sickly and weak?
(a) The mountain lion's attack.
(b) Billy's illness.
(c) Old Dan's death.
(d) The end of hunting season.

5. Who becomes separated from the group during the storm?
(a) Papa.
(b) Grandpa.
(c) Billy.
(d) The judge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Billy bury the dogs when they die?

2. How does Rainie Pritchard characterize Billy's grandfather?

3. What creature does Old Dan tree one day after the competition?

4. What does Billy do to help himself see the dogs in the fog in Chapter 11?

5. How does Billy react when his grandfather tells him he has entered him into the hunting contest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rainie Pritchard suggest that Billy should accept that his dogs cannot catch the "ghost coon"?

2. Why doesn't Billy follow his dogs to the third raccoon in the final round of the hunting competition? What does he do instead?

3. Describe the legend of the red fern.

4. Describe how Billy's dogs catch the first two raccoons of the final round of the hunting competition.

5. Describe the struggle between Billy's dogs and the mountain lion.

6. What warnings do Billy's father and grandfather give him about hunting in bad weather?

7. What are the rules of the hunting competition?

8. How does Billy's family react to the news of the hunting competition?

9. Describe the exchange that takes place between Billy, Grandpa and the Pritchard boys.

10. What does Mr. Benson tell Billy that concerns him? What does Billy discover is actually true?

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