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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does the dog weigh?
(a) 90 pounds.
(b) 75 pounds.
(c) 50 pounds.
(d) 150 pounds.

2. How does Ike learn patience?
(a) By walking when he wants to run.
(b) By waiting out a snowstorm.
(c) By waiting in the rain.
(d) By aiming his gun and not shooting.

3. When Ike is at his hunting stand-alone, he hears a gunshot and knows that ______________ has been shot.
(a) A buck.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A doe.
(d) Old Ben.

4. The following November, who shoots at Old Ben and draws blood?
(a) Ike.
(b) Major deSpain.
(c) Dam.
(d) General Compson.

5. What does Ike see when he looks up from pondering the ground around him?
(a) An Indian tracker.
(b) The sky.
(c) A doe.
(d) Old Ben.

6. Many years later, Ike thinks that Sam must have been glad about what?
(a) He made lots of money.
(b) He married a good woman.
(c) He killed Old Ben.
(d) His life was almost over.

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

8. What is another reason Ike thinks Sam must be glad his life is almost over?
(a) He had to be a Negro for seventy years.
(b) He had been a slave all his life.
(c) He was in pain all the time.
(d) He had lost an arm in the war.

9. Ike notices that the dogs on the hunt can't find _____________.
(a) Food.
(b) The trail.
(c) Their tails.
(d) Their way home.

10. Which of the following does not describe Ike's feelings when he compares himself to the timeless woods?
(a) Eager.
(b) Masterful.
(c) Humble.
(d) Fragile.

11. In what month do the men go on their annual trips to hunt Old Ben?
(a) November.
(b) January.
(c) October.
(d) March.

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

13. Ike decides to dedicate his life to the wilderness to learn patience and ______________.
(a) Fear.
(b) Humility.
(c) Skill.
(d) Abundance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Major deSpain want to make Lion sleep?

2. Sam says that Lion does not care for ________________-.

3. Ike feels that Boon is a _______________.

4. The wild dog is part mastiff and part _____________.

5. Many years later, Ike thinks about the incident and realizes that _________ knew what killed the colt.

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