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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Eats it on the way home.
(d) Hides it from his sisters.

2. How long does it take Billy to catch his first raccoon in the traps?
(a) More than a month.
(b) Exactly one week.
(c) More than a week.
(d) One day.

3. What does Papa instruct Billy to do to his traps once he has caught his first raccoon?
(a) Take the traps apart and never hunt again.
(b) Move his traps to another location.
(c) Move the traps to the house to save for later.
(d) Take the traps apart and only use the pups to hunt.

4. Why does Old Dan run up a hollow tree during a hunt?
(a) To follow the scent of a raccoon.
(b) To chase a raccoon that is in the tree.
(c) To chase Little Ann.
(d) To get a better view of the raccoon running away.

5. What does Billy notice about the size of the puppies in Chapter 5?
(a) Both of the dogs are smaller than he expected.
(b) The female dog is larger than the male dog.
(c) Both dogs are larger than he expected.
(d) The male dog is larger than the female dog.

6. What does the dog's presence in Chapter 1 awaken in the unnamed man?
(a) Feelings of loneliness.
(b) Childhood memories of his two dogs.
(c) A long forgotten fondness for animals.
(d) Childhood memories of his cats.

7. What does Billy use as a piggy bank?
(a) An old soda can.
(b) A jar.
(c) An old sock.
(d) An old baking powder can.

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

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

10. What event helps Mama understand why Billy is determined to cut down "The Big Tree"?
(a) Old Dan's return to the tree during the night.
(b) Billy's faith in God.
(c) Billy's aching muscles.
(d) Little Ann's return to the tree during the night.

11. How does the boy dog demonstrate his courage in this chapter?
(a) He barks at the cries of a mountain lion
(b) He chases a mountain lion
(c) He chases a raccoon
(d) He protects Billy and the girl puppy

12. What does Billy see for the first time in the general store window in Chapter 4?
(a) His puppies.
(b) A pair of shoes.
(c) A double-barreled gun.
(d) A buggy.

13. What does Billy do to prevent Old Dan from entering the hollow tree again?
(a) He cuts the tree down.
(b) He moves the dogs to another area of the woods to hunt.
(c) He plugs the hole with rocks.
(d) He punishes him for going up the tree.

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

15. What happens to Dan when he and the raccoon fight?
(a) His nose is split open.
(b) His paw is cut.
(c) He is bit by the raccoon.
(d) He is fine. The raccoon is injured.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Billy's mother punish him in Chapter 7?

2. What information does Billy's father give him in Chapter 6 about town life that surprises Billy?

3. Why does Billy run away from home?

4. What does the Tahlequah marshal give Billy before he leaves Tahlequah?

5. What does Billy's grandfather suggest in Chapter 9 the boy do to keep the coon in the tree while he goes home to rest?

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