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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Jody attempt to talk to on the way to Volusia, prompting him to deeply miss Fodder Wing?
(a) The horse wrangler.
(b) The blacksmith.
(c) The ferry boy.
(d) The gardener.

2. What crop of the Baxter family is described as "rotting in the ground"?
(a) Radishes.
(b) Carrots.
(c) Onions.
(d) Sweet potatoes.

3. Who is the only member of the Baxter family to kill one of the invading wolves?
(a) Old Julia.
(b) Jody.
(c) Flag.
(d) Ma Baxter.

4. How big is the alligator that Penny hunts down by the watering hole and plans to smoke for dog food?
(a) Three feet long.
(b) Eight feet long.
(c) Fifteen feet long.
(d) Twelve feet long.

5. What is the name of the area where the Baxter men find the bears hunting salt water mullet?
(a) Bear Heaven.
(b) Salt Water Paradise.
(c) Mullet Prairie.
(d) The Fishing Hole.

6. Who does Jody plan to enlist as a partner to save Flag from his fate?
(a) Buck Forrester.
(b) Grandma Hutto.
(c) Ma Baxter.
(d) Oliver Hutto.

7. When the storm arrives, how many days does it last?
(a) Three days.
(b) Seven days.
(c) Five days.
(d) Two days.

8. How many times does Jody look back to see Flag's dead body?
(a) He never looks back.
(b) Once.
(c) Twice.
(d) More times that Jody can count.

9. Who shoots the final shot that kills Flag?
(a) Penny.
(b) Ma.
(c) Jody.
(d) Buck Forrester.

10. After Christmas, how often do the Forrester brothers ride past the Baxter farm.
(a) Never.
(b) About once a week.
(c) Every day.
(d) Very rarely.

11. After Christmas, to what does Jody compare the members of the Hutto family?
(a) Characters in a fairy tale.
(b) Baby birds that were taken too soon from their mother.
(c) International spies.
(d) Soldiers fighting a far away war.

12. Why doesn't Old Julia follow the yearling tracks that Penny finds in the woods?
(a) Because they are Flag's tracks.
(b) Because the Baxters are no longer hunting deer.
(c) Because she can smell bears in the distance.
(d) Because she is getting too old to hunt.

13. What, does Penny explain, is the stage a deer goes through called "yearling"?
(a) The age of a deer right before it dies from old age.
(b) The age of a newborn deer before it is called a fawn.
(c) The in-between phase of maturity.
(d) The age when a deer grows his horns.

14. Why are the Baxter men called to hunt with the Forresters after they initially declined?
(a) Because the wolves are growing in numbers.
(b) Because the Forresters weren't able to build traps that could contain the wolves.
(c) Because the poisoning didn't kill all of the wolves.
(d) Because the wolves retaliated and killed one of the Forrester men.

15. What does Ma call the Forrester boys after the lie to Oliver Hutto?
(a) Gorillas.
(b) Chimpanzees.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Baboons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the plague that is sweeping through the woods?

2. Why was Penny forced into bed for three days following the return of Old Slewfoot?

3. What bird does Penny notice has survived the plague?

4. Before Jody plans to leave, what statement does he repeat over and over to himself?

5. What happens after Flag goes wandering through the house at night and nuzzles Ma while she is sleeping?

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