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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sam's plan is to alternate feeding and starving the dog until ____________________.
(a) He can be touched.
(b) He can be trained.
(c) He can track.
(d) He can trust.

2. Ike takes his new gun and ______________ with him when he goes out to look for Old Ben.
(a) A canteen.
(b) A compass.
(c) A knapsack.
(d) A bedroll.

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

4. What color eyes does the dog have?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Brown.
(d) Grey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ike is at his hunting stand-alone, he hears a gunshot and knows that ______________ has been shot.

2. Which of the following does not describe Ike's dog when Ike ambushed Old Ben?

3. Which of the following is not attributed to Old Ben?

4. What is the name of the dog Sam is training?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ike try to make sense out of the Civil War?

2. How does the author use a flashback to reveal information through the narrator?

3. Describe Lion.

4. What is the anecdote that Ike recalls about taking the train into the wilderness?

5. What advice does Sam give Ike the next hunting season regarding his gun?

6. Why is Ike reticent to return to the farm with his wife?

7. Who is the bear in THE BEAR?

8. Many years later, what does Ike realize about Sam and the colt and about Sam's life in general?

9. Describe how Ike ambushed Old Ben one day and how it ended?

10. How has Old Ben become an integral part of Ike's life?

(see the answer keys)

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