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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the trouble that Travis thinks is too big for any of them to handle?
(a) There is a bear in the corn.
(b) The Spot heifer is injured.
(c) The Spot heifer comes home acting crazy and ignores her calf.
(d) The chickens have gone wild.

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 cuts their tails.
(d) He has to catch them and mark them.

3. What does Travis think about Lisbeth staying with them?
(a) He thinks she will be no help and a bother.
(b) He thinks she will sit and cry all day.
(c) He thinks she will pester him all day.
(d) He thinks she will work hard.

4. Why is Travis glad that he missed a bunch of pigs back at bat cave country?
(a) Lisbeth will be impressed with his bravery.
(b) He gets to hunt pigs rather than gather corn.
(c) It teaches him to be more of a man.
(d) He gets to spend time away from Little Arliss.

5. How many hogs are near the bat cave?
(a) Four pigs, one sow, and a couple of bar' hogs.
(b) Five pigs, three sows, and a couple of bar' hogs.
(c) Three pigs, two sows, and four bar' hogs.
(d) Five pigs, two sows, and one bar' hog.

6. What does Travis see that makes him think Old Yeller is dead?
(a) Buzzards circling and diving above the spot where Old Yeller is hidden
(b) Flies are hovering over the spot where Old Yeller is hidden.
(c) He sees a large puddle of blood around the spot where Old Yeller is hidden.
(d) He sees a sees a hog sniffing around the spot where Old Yeller is hidden.

7. How does Travis know that he is near the hogs?
(a) He hears Old Yeller baying.
(b) He sees and eagle circling.
(c) He hears the hogs squealing.
(d) He sees a cougar watching from a high cliff.

8. What is Travis' reaction to Lisbeth helping Mama with the corn?
(a) He's glad to be out of it.
(b) He wants to tell her that she is useless.
(c) It hurts his pride.
(d) He wishes she would leave.

9. Why is Travis terrified when he sees Old Yeller fighting a mad loafer wolf?
(a) He is afraid the wolf will go after Mama.
(b) He is afraid the wolf will turn on him.
(c) A loafer wolf is big and savage
(d) He is afraid the wolf will go after the puppy.

10. What does Old Yeller do when Travis reaches for him?
(a) Old Yeller loses consciousness.
(b) Old Yeller whimpers in pain.
(c) Old Yeller lunges at him with bared fangs.
(d) Old Yeller licks his hand.

11. How does Travis feel when Lisbeth and Little Arliss walk past his door?
(a) He wants to go out and yell at her some more.
(b) He feels sorry and mean for hurting her feelings.
(c) He is still mad at her.
(d) He wants her to go home.

12. Why doesn't Mama want the buzzards to eat the dead animal?
(a) It might spread the disease.
(b) They can eat the meat themselves.
(c) The meat will be good for Old Yeller and the puppy.
(d) The meat will be good for the hogs.

13. What does Travis yell for Mama to bring him?
(a) His jacket.
(b) His shoes.
(c) His bull whip.
(d) His gun.

14. How does Travis hide Old Yeller while he runs home to get help?
(a) Travis covers him with branches.
(b) Travis pushes him under an overhanging rock and covers the opening with a mesquite stump.
(c) Travis pushes him into a cave.
(d) Travis digs a hole and places Old Yeller in it.

15. How does Travis feel about his new horse?
(a) He doesn't want it.
(b) He doesn't care about it.
(c) He hates it.
(d) He so excited that he forgets about Old Yeller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lisbeth tell Travis about the puppy she gave him?

2. How does Mama sew up Old Yeller's wound?

3. How does Travis shoot Old Yeller?

4. When does Travis become uneasy about why Mama and Lisbeth haven't returned home?

5. What does Mama tell Little Arliss to do as she is about to remove Old Yeller's bandage?

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