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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. Who lays next to Old Dan's dead body before it is buried?
(a) Billy.
(b) Little Ann.
(c) Billy's sisters.
(d) Billy and Little Ann.

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

3. Why do the dogs pounce on a large scary animal in Chapter 18 that Old Dan had treed?
(a) It looks like it might attack Billy.
(b) It stands in a threatening way.
(c) It growls at them.
(d) It attacks Billy.

4. What does Billy do to try and gain an advantage on his night of hunting in the contest?
(a) Give the dogs a pep talk.
(b) Move out of the over-hunted area.
(c) Take his father and grandfather along hunting.
(d) Encourage the dogs.

5. What does Billy realize when he hears Old Dan bay while out on the ice?
(a) Something is wrong.
(b) He is hurt.
(c) He has lost the scent of the raccoon.
(d) He has found the raccoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy finally notice about his mother as the family discusses the hunting competition over dinner?

2. Why does Billy insist the group look for the dogs rather than wait for them to come back on their own?

3. What does Billy's father show him to help him feel better when Old Dan and Little Ann die?

4. What does Billy find when he visits to the dogs' graves before leaving home?

5. What does Grandpa give Billy in Chapter 15 that marks him as an adult?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the role Old Blue plays in Chapter 13.

2. What does Mr. Benson tell Billy that concerns him? What does Billy discover is actually true?

3. How does Billy's family react to the news of the hunting competition?

4. Describe the exchange that takes place between Billy, Grandpa and the Pritchard boys.

5. Describe how Billy's dogs catch the first two raccoons of the final round of the hunting competition.

6. What does Billy notice about the other dogs in the hunting competition?

7. Why does Rainie Pritchard suggest that Billy should accept that his dogs cannot catch the "ghost coon"?

8. How does Papa believe the family's prayers have been answered in Chapter 19?

9. Why doesn't Billy follow his dogs to the third raccoon in the final round of the hunting competition? What does he do instead?

10. How is the "ghost coon" able to evade the dogs?

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