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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object is used to play the game "Mumbledepeg"?
(a) A jackknife.
(b) A wooden stake.
(c) A loaded gun.
(d) A metal hammer.

2. What does Jody see his father do, which prompts him to believe his father will live?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Swear.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Breathe.

3. Penny and Jody come across what animals swinging in a sapling tree?
(a) Chipmunks.
(b) Bear cubs.
(c) Gophers.
(d) Squirrels

4. What type of albino animal is caught in Penny's trap?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A squirrel.
(c) A raccoon.
(d) An eagle.

5. How deep is the Baxter family's sinkhole?
(a) 60 feet.
(b) 300 feet.
(c) 230 feet.
(d) 100 feet.

6. Buck considers what animals to be vandals in the cornfield?
(a) Raccoons.
(b) Foxes.
(c) Bears.
(d) Deer.

7. When Jody sees that his mother is in a bad mood, on what does he compliment her in an attempt to cheer her mood?
(a) Her good looks.
(b) Her cooking.
(c) Her sewing abilities.
(d) Her clean home.

8. Who takes Jody into the woods in search of the fawn?
(a) Penny.
(b) Buck Forrester.
(c) Mill Wheel Forrester.
(d) Fodder Wing.

9. When Jody sees Oliver to say goodbye, what does Oliver ask Jody to do for him?
(a) Pray for his healing wounds.
(b) Punch Lem Forrester the next time he sees him.
(c) Pick up his medicine from the doctor's office.
(d) Deliver a message to Twink.

10. When Jody leaves to visit Fodder Wing, he is warned that what animal is in its mating season?
(a) Badger.
(b) Rattlesnake.
(c) Bear.
(d) Cougar.

11. How long does Penny say Julia must mend before she will be well enough to hunt Old Slewfoot again?
(a) One month.
(b) One year.
(c) One week.
(d) One day.

12. After the bee hunt, who kills Old Slewfoot?
(a) Ma.
(b) Buck Forrester.
(c) Jody.
(d) Penny.

13. What does Lem Forrester trade to Penny in exchange for the fiest?
(a) A gun.
(b) A sack of food.
(c) Bullets.
(d) An animal pelt.

14. How does Jody express himself when he tells his father about his insights into nature?
(a) He finds that he is able to express himself eloquently.
(b) He has no interest in telling his father what he thinks about nature.
(c) He finds that his father is not interested in what he has to say.
(d) He finds that he cannot properly express himself.

15. What animal attacks Penny while he and Jody are searching for the missing farm animals?
(a) A rattlesnake.
(b) Old Slewfoot.
(c) A colony of fire ants.
(d) A badger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals go missing from the Baxter farm after the fistfight?

2. Which of the following instruments is NOT present in the Forrester family's late night jam session?

3. Why does Penny encourage Jody to return the small fish that he caught back into the water?

4. Which of the following words finishes this phrase from the Forrester home: "I'm so hungry, my ______ thinks my throat is cut"?

5. Who is with Jody when he thinks he sees the helmeted Spaniard?

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