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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. Which of the following words might Jody use to describe his day in the woods in the opening chapter?
(a) Frustrating
(b) Average.
(c) Terrible.
(d) Perfect.

2. Who does Oliver leave the dinner table to visit, infuriating Jody?
(a) Fodder Wing.
(b) Mr. Boyles.
(c) Twink.
(d) Lem Forrester.

3. What does Penny say about Jody after the fistfight?
(a) That he has acted childishly.
(b) That he has become a man.
(c) That he will be punished severely.
(d) That he has earned the right to own his own pet.

4. On the ferry ride across the river, what does Jody think about?
(a) The way his father has changed.
(b) Fodder Wing's animals.
(c) Oliver's imperfections.
(d) Twink's beauty.

5. What does Jody give to Doc in exchange for healing his father?
(a) The gun traded from the Forresters.
(b) His coonskin knapsack.
(c) His new hunting knife.
(d) The baby fawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Grandma Hutto allow Jody to return home after the fistfight?

2. Penny and Jody come across what animals swinging in a sapling tree?

3. When Jody sees Oliver to say goodbye, what does Oliver ask Jody to do for him?

4. What vegetable is Jody hoeing on the day that he wants to visit Fodder Wing with his new fawn?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do each of Jody's parents react to the fact that he has been rambling in the woods all morning rather than doing his chores?

2. What reaction does Jody have when Old Slewfoot kills the Baxter family's pregnant sow?

3. How is Jody injured during the fight between Oliver Hutto and the Forrester men?

4. What happens during Fodder Wing's burial service?

5. What happens when Jody eats half-ripe berries from the woods?

6. How does the Baxter family feel about the need to have a watering well?

7. When Penny realizes that the hogs are missing, what does he do?

8. Why does Penny shoot the doe while out searching for his missing hogs?

9. How has the Baxter farm changed from the beginning of summer to the end, in August?

10. What happens when the Forrester boys wake up, thinking that they hear a "varmint" scratching around their mother's bedpost?

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