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

2. What does Papa believe would have prevented Billy from moving with the family at the end of the book?
(a) A desire to stay near the river.
(b) His grief over the dogs' deaths.
(c) Hunting with the dogs.
(d) A desire to stay near the dogs' graves.

3. Who does Billy's grandfather hold partly responsible for Rubin's death?
(a) Himself.
(b) The "ghost coon".
(c) Rubin.
(d) Billy.

4. How is Rubin Pritchard killed?
(a) Billy hits him with the ax when he tries to attack his dogs.
(b) Billy's dogs attack him.
(c) His brother hits him with the ax.
(d) He trips on branch and falls on his ax.

5. What surprises the hunting contest judge about Billy's dogs' final catch?
(a) They chased the raccoon for miles.
(b) They were able to find the raccoon again after he walked a rail fence.
(c) They worked together to tree the raccoon.
(d) They did not give up even though it was daybreak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy discover when he climbs the ghost tree in Chapter 13?

2. What event causes Little Ann to become sickly and weak?

3. Where does Little Ann find the "ghost coon" after Billy believes the bet is over?

4. Where does Billy's family move to in Chapter 19?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Papa and Billy do upon returning home from the hunting competition? How does the family react?

3. What are the rules of the hunting competition?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe how Billy's dogs catch the three raccoons that put him in the running for the gold cup.

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

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

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