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

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

3. Where do the dogs chase a raccoon to in Chapter 11?
(a) A tree.
(b) Tahlequah.
(c) The river.
(d) Billy's family's home.

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

5. Who becomes separated from the group during the storm?
(a) The judge.
(b) Grandpa.
(c) Papa.
(d) Billy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Billy pay the Pritchard boys $2?

3. What surprises Billy's grandfather about Little Ann and Old Dan's relationship?

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

5. Where does Billy bury the dogs when they die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What warnings do Billy's father and grandfather give him about hunting in bad weather?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the legend of the red fern.

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

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