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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. How does Billy prepare Little Ann for the beauty contest?
(a) By brushing and rubbing butter into her hair.
(b) By teaching her commands.
(c) By brushing and rubbing hair oil into her hair.
(d) By telling her she is a beautiful dog.

2. What event at the beginning of Chapter 11 prevents Billy from hunting?
(a) A snow blizzard.
(b) The flu.
(c) The end of the hunting season.
(d) Injuries to his dogs.

3. What challenge do the Pritchard boys pose for Billy and the dogs?
(a) Selling the most pelts.
(b) Treeing the "ghost coon."
(c) Catching more raccoons than they have caught.
(d) Catching the biggest raccoon.

4. What problem do the dogs face when the raccoon leads them to the river in Chapter 11?
(a) The ice on the river is slippery.
(b) They lose the scent of the coon.
(c) The river is frozen.
(d) The water is too cold to swim in.

5. Where does Little Ann find the "ghost coon" after Billy believes the bet is over?
(a) In a hollowed out gatepost.
(b) Down near the river.
(c) In the ghost tree.
(d) In a hollowed out tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concerns Billy about Old Dan's behavior when he trees the animal in Chapter 18?

2. What does Papa do to get Little Ann to come back to Billy in Chapter 17?

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

4. Who lays next to Old Dan's dead body before it is buried?

5. What happens to Grandpa as the dogs chase their second raccoon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the struggle between Billy's dogs and the mountain lion.

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

5. What does Billy do to prepare for the final round of the hunting competition?

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

7. Describe Billy's thoughts as he travels from his grandfather's store to his family's home after finding out about the hunting competition.

8. What are the rules of the hunting competition?

9. What does Billy do to try and rescue Little Ann from the freezing river?

10. Years after leaving the Ozarks, what does Billy imagine he would find if he should ever visit the dogs' graves?

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