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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Three, how is the relationship between William and Esther?
(a) They barely speak to each other.
(b) They are closer than ever.
(c) They are fighting less than they used to.
(d) They are fighting more than they used to.

2. What leads Ben to conclude that the badger was not a dream after his first night in the badger den?
(a) He remembers her presence clearly.
(b) He finds badger fur on his clothes.
(c) He finds her footprints around the den.
(d) The badger is sitting outside waiting for him.

3. Where is Burton while the female badger is struggling with the trap?
(a) Checking his other traps.
(b) At the MacDonald farm.
(c) At a saloon in Winnipeg.
(d) At home asleep.

4. The MacDonalds have an argument after their new neighbor leaves in Chapter One. About what are they arguing?
(a) The farm.
(b) Ben.
(c) The neighbor.
(d) Dinner.

5. Burton says, when the search party is unable to locate Ben, that the boy must have gone where?
(a) Into the woods.
(b) Straight up or straight down.
(c) Run away into town.
(d) Washed away in the stream.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Burton move his trap after the male badger is killed?

2. What was the problem with the first site the badger examined in Chapter Two?

3. When the badger returns to the den in Chapter Eight, what animal does she bring for Ben to eat?

4. In the prologue, the author states that William MacDonald is what ethnicity?

5. While examining the mouse skull abandoned by the hawk, Ben discovers what?

(see the answer key)

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