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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the woman watching Billy play in the playground in Tahlequah react to what happens to Billy?
(a) She rushes over to help him.
(b) She reports him to the school principal.
(c) She laughs at him.
(d) She is disgusted by his appearance.

2. Why does Old Dan leave Billy's home during the night in Chapter 9?
(a) To find Little Ann.
(b) To return to the tree where the coon is.
(c) To track another coon.
(d) To swim in the river.

3. What does Little Ann do just as Billy is about to move the dogs to a new location in Chapter 8?
(a) She finds the coon's trail again.
(b) She crosses the river.
(c) She trees a coon.
(d) She begins barking.

4. Why does Billy choose the particular names for the puppies that he does?
(a) They are his grandparents' names.
(b) He sees them carved on a tree at the campsite where he found the sportsman's magazine.
(c) He saw them in an old sportsman's magazine.
(d) His sisters choose the names.

5. What does Billy use to make collars for the puppies?
(a) Leather from old shoes.
(b) Pieces of his fathers' check lines.
(c) Bailing wire.
(d) Rope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy do to gather strength when he believes he can no longer chop the tree down?

2. Who arrives to check on Billy in Chapter 8 when he has not returned home from hunting by morning?

3. Why do the children at the playground in Tahlequah make fun of Billy?

4. How does Billy's grandfather help him get the item he needs to train the dogs as trackers?

5. Where does the unnamed man assume the dog in Chapter 1 lives?

(see the answer key)

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