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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Travis' mother instruct him to do while he is doing his chores?
(a) He is to think about Little Arliss and the dog.
(b) He is to recite his Latin verbs while he works.
(c) He is to recite his numbers while he works.
(d) He is to say his prayers while he works.

2. What does Travis have to do to the hogs to be able to tell them apart from the neighbor's hogs?
(a) He tattoos their ears.
(b) He brands them.
(c) He has to catch them and mark them.
(d) He cuts their tails.

3. What does Travis discover when he opens the dog run door where the meat is stored?
(a) The meat is gone.
(b) A wolf is eating the meat.
(c) The meat is rotten.
(d) Little Arliss is hanging from the meat.

4. What disease does Bud Searcy hope does not spread throughout the settlement before the men get back?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Small Pox.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Hydrophobia.

5. How does Travis interpret the sounds of the old bull?
(a) Travis says that the bull is bragging about being the biggest, toughest, and meanest.
(b) Travis says that the old bull is asking the younger bull to kill him.
(c) Travis says that the old bull is surrendering and willing to die.
(d) Travis says that the old bull is giving up his rights as leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first suggestion Sanderson gives to Mama about keeping Old Yeller?

2. When do the hogs become the most vicious?

3. Why does Travis run off when the trade is made between Arliss and Sanderson?

4. Why is Bud Searcy left behind when all the men drive the cattle to Abilene?

5. How does Little Arliss take Travis by surprise?

(see the answer key)

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