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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Doc Smith say is wrong with Grandfather?
(a) He is paralyzed.
(b) He has stomach poisoning.
(c) He has given up on life.
(d) He has cancer.

2. How does Willy plow the crop?
(a) Searchlight pulls the plow.
(b) A team of five Samoyeds pulls it.
(c) His neighbor rents his horse to him.
(d) Willy puts a harness over his head and pulls the plow himself.

3. Which of the following does NOT describe Clifford Snyder?
(a) He is short with a small head.
(b) He has a droopy mustache.
(c) He is a city slicker.
(d) He has bright green eyes.

4. What does WIlly's teacher say about Willy?
(a) That he cannot keep his hands to himself.
(b) That he is a trouble-maker.
(c) That he asks too many questions.
(d) That he is having trouble in reading class.

5. What does little Willy make in the mornings for breakfast?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Eggs and bacon.
(c) Oatmeal mush.
(d) Biscuits and gravy.

6. What does Clifford Snyder's voice sound like?
(a) The whisper of the wind.
(b) The rush of a waterfall.
(c) The screech of a hawk.
(d) The twang of a ricocheting bullet.

7. What happens when little Willy goes back to sleep instead of getting up like Grandfather asked?
(a) Little Willy's breakfast gets taken to the chicken coop.
(b) Little Willy has to make his own breakfast.
(c) Grandfather makes him a second plate of eggs.
(d) Grandfather beats him.

8. Why does little Willy not use his college money to help get the plow in?
(a) Because he wants to keep it in the bank so it can earn interest.
(b) Because he finds another stack of money buried in the garden.
(c) Because he uses his college money to buy food.
(d) Because Grandfather signals "No!"

9. What weapon does Clifford Snyder have?
(a) A derringer.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A pocket knife.
(d) An axe.

10. What does Doc Smith say is going to happen to Grandfather?
(a) He is going to need physical therapy.
(b) He is going to be better tomorrow.
(c) He is going to die.
(d) He is going to help with the harvest.

11. When Grandfather plays a trick on little Willy, what does he dress up as?
(a) The man who put horseshoes on horses.
(b) The aging teaching who taught Willy's class.
(c) The scarecrow in their garden.
(d) The mean man from their town.

12. How far is the schoolhouse from Grandfather and Willy's farm?
(a) 2,000 feet.
(b) 5 miles.
(c) 3 blocks.
(d) 15 miles.

13. Why can Searchlight and Willy go so fast on the trails home?
(a) Because she eats special food that makes her really fast.
(b) Because the ice on the trial helps them slide faster than ever before.
(c) Because they run the same way hundreds of times.
(d) Because little Willy whips her to make her speed up.

14. In what stage of life is Doc Smith?
(a) Doc Smith is in middle age, about 45 years old.
(b) Doc Smith is just out of medical school.
(c) Doc Smith is an old woman.
(d) Doc Smith is a mother with young children.

15. What has Grandfather not been doing that he should have been doing?
(a) Planting corn.
(b) Reading books.
(c) Paying taxes on the farm.
(d) Raising pigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hand signal means "water"?

2. What does Doc Smith want to do with Searchlight?

3. What signal does Grandfather use to mean yes?

4. Who is the author of Stone Fox?

5. What is little Willy's dog named?

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