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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Native American tribe used to inhabit the lands that make up the MacDonald farm?
(a) Cree.
(b) Lakota.
(c) Blackfeet.
(d) Dakota Sioux.

2. How much money does Burton say he can make off the male badger's pelt?
(a) Thirty or forty dollars.
(b) Twelve or fifteen dollars.
(c) Eighteen or twenty dollars.
(d) Five or six dollars.

3. In Chapter Five, Burton mentions that badgers are better fighters than all but which animal?
(a) Coyote.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Mink.
(d) Wolverine.

4. How does Esther react when Ben refuses to come inside for dinner after Burton shows them the dead male badger?
(a) She yells and spanks him.
(b) She tells him she'll put a plate aside for him.
(c) She gets angry with him.
(d) She forces him in the house.

5. The neighbor is surprised to learn that Ben is six years old, because Ben looks as though he ought to be how old?
(a) Eight or nine.
(b) One or two.
(c) Three or four.
(d) Eleven or twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Esther ask Ben to respond to the new neighbor?

2. The MacDonalds have an argument after their new neighbor leaves in Chapter One. About what are they arguing?

3. What scent does the female badger encounter and ignore that her mate later smells during Chapter Four?

4. Where does the female badger frequently hunt while her babies are nursing?

5. When did William first meet the neighbor?

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