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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Billy run away from home?
(a) To pursue a career as a hunter.
(b) To go purchase two hound puppies.
(c) His sisters tease him relentlessly about wanting puppies.
(d) His parents deny him hound puppies for a second time.

2. What happens to Billy when he tries to join in with the activity the children at the playground in Tahlequah are participating in?
(a) He is too frightened to slide down.
(b) He gets caught on the pipe.
(c) He splatters on to the ground.
(d) The children laugh at him.

3. What does Billy do with the bag of candy from his grandfather's store?
(a) Shares it with his entire family.
(b) Shares it with his sisters.
(c) Hides it from his sisters.
(d) Eats it on the way home.

4. What do the other hunters tease Billy about when they talk at his grandfather's store?
(a) The size of his dogs.
(b) That one of his dogs is female.
(c) His obsession with hunting.
(d) His age.

5. Who does Billy think has planted the red fern?
(a) God.
(b) The dogs.
(c) His father.
(d) Grandpa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Billy apologize to the sycamore tree?

2. What does Old Dan do when Little Ann cuts her paw?

3. What creature does Old Dan tree one day after the competition?

4. What reason does Billy's father provide for Billy's inability to catch a raccoon in his new traps?

5. At the age of ten, what does Billy desperately want to have?

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