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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sam have shut in his hut?
(a) A dog.
(b) An Indian.
(c) A child.
(d) A woman.

2. What does Ike say is present on all the hunting trips?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Grits.
(d) Tobacco.

3. In what month of the following year does the group return to the camp?
(a) June.
(b) April.
(c) May.
(d) July.

4. Why does Old Ben run the other bears off?
(a) He is always angry.
(b) He is the head bear.
(c) He is hungry.
(d) He is so huge.

5. Why does the group return to camp the following summer?
(a) To celebrate birthdays.
(b) To go fishing.
(c) To have a memorial for Ash.
(d) To build a cabin.

6. Whose birthdays are celebrated when the men return to camp in the summer?
(a) Ash's.
(b) Ike's.
(c) Sam's.
(d) Major deSpain and General Compson's.

7. How old is the narrator of the story?
(a) 18.
(b) 21.
(c) 16.
(d) 13.

8. Which one of the men finds the dead colt?
(a) Ike.
(b) Major deSpain.
(c) Sam.
(d) General Compson.

9. Who is the narrator?
(a) Ishmael.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Ike.
(d) Irvin.

10. Many years later, Ike thinks about the incident and realizes that _________ knew what killed the colt.
(a) Major deSpain.
(b) Sam.
(c) General Compson.
(d) Ash.

11. What does Ike see in his dreams?
(a) A hunting dog.
(b) A new rifle.
(c) Old Ben.
(d) A pretty girl.

12. Which of the following does Ike not recall about his first hunting trip?
(a) A snowstorm.
(b) Practicing to aim his gun.
(c) Rough sheets.
(d) Bad food.

13. Which of the following does not go on the narrator's first hunting trip?
(a) General Compson.
(b) Cousin McCaslin.
(c) Edgar MacKenzie.
(d) Major deSpain.

14. To what does Ike compare his first hunting trip?
(a) The first day of summer vacation.
(b) Christmas morning.
(c) Witnessing his own birth.
(d) His 10th birthday.

15. What has Ike killed?
(a) A buck.
(b) Many birds.
(c) Many rabbits.
(d) A doe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the mentor to the narrator?

2. What does Ike see when he looks up from pondering the ground around him?

3. The opening line of Chapter 2 is "So he should have hated and feared _____________."

4. How many strangers show up at the camp to watch the first day of the hunt?

5. What does Ike think of Old Ben when he finally sees him?

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