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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 lost the scent of the raccoon.
(c) He has found the raccoon.
(d) Something is wrong.

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

3. What event causes Little Ann to become sickly and weak?
(a) The mountain lion's attack.
(b) Old Dan's death.
(c) The end of hunting season.
(d) Billy's illness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy's mother suggest will make him feel better when Old Dan and Little Ann die?

2. Which of the following is NOT something Billy believes would be at the dogs' grave sites years later?

3. What does Billy do to try and gain an advantage on his night of hunting in the contest?

4. What challenge emerges at the beginning of Chapter 17?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the legend of the red fern.

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

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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