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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a strange varmit stealing from the people in the settlement?
(a) Meat, eggs, and cornbread.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Flour and eggs.

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

3. What does Mama prepare for supper after Old Yeller arrives?
(a) Buttermilk biscuits.
(b) Corn meal mush.
(c) Beef stew.
(d) Hotcakes and honey.

4. What warns the doe that Travis is nearby?
(a) He stretches out his leg.
(b) He sneezes.
(c) He laughs at a squirrel.
(d) He scratches his ear.

5. What does Old Yeller do when Travis sic's him on the bulls?
(a) He circles the bulls, howling.
(b) He attacks the bulls.
(c) He leaps onto the back of one of the bulls.
(d) He runs away into the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Little Arliss' reaction when they get back to the cabin?

2. What does Arliss start catching after Old Yeller arrives?

3. How does Travis' dog, Bell, die?

4. What is Little Arliss' reaction to Old Yeller?

5. What does Travis' mother instruct him to do while he is doing his chores?

(see the answer key)

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