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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Travis when he falls into the killer hogs?

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

3. How does Travis feel about marking the hogs?

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

5. What lives in one of Travis' favorite places, down in a deep canyon which is bent in the shape of a horseshoe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decision does Mama and Travis make regarding the Spot heifer?

2. Describe what Travis and Mama do with the bull.

3. Summarize how Old Yeller gets the wild hogs where Travis wants them to go.

4. Summarize how Travis and Mama get Old Yeller back to the cabin.

5. Describe the circumstances that help Travis come out of his depression over Old Yeller.

6. Describe what Mama does to treat Travis' wound.

7. Summarize the actions of Travis when he realized that the roan bull has hydrophobia.

8. Describe Travis' state of mind after he shoots Old Yeller.

9. Describe what Lisbeth does while staying with Travis and his family.

10. Describe the procedure Travis uses for marking the hogs.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Evaluate the relationship between Travis and his brother, Little Arliss.

2) How does Old Yeller affect their relationship with one another?

3) What event changes the way Travis views his brother and how he feels about him?

Give examples from the novel of the interaction between the two brothers.

Essay Topic 2

1) Interpret the feelings Travis and Lisbeth have for each other in the first part of the novel when they are visiting.

2) Are their emotions authentic for their ages?

3) Are they truthful with each other?

4) Compare these emotions with how they interact later in the novel when Lisbeth is staying at Travis' house.

5) What regrets do they have at the end of the novel with regard to their relationship?

6) How does their relationship differ from the first part of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

1) Analyze the impact of the Civil War on the American economy as described in the novel.

2) What result does this economy have on the lives of Papa, Travis, Mama, and Little Arliss?

3) Predict how different their lives would have been if the war had not affected the economy.

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