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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reputation does the neighbor have with the townspeople of Winnipeg?
(a) They think he is kind and friendly.
(b) They think he's a coward and a bully.
(c) They don't know anything about him.
(d) They are afraid of him.

2. Why is Esther so angry with her husband over his attitude toward Ben?
(a) She thinks William hates Ben.
(b) She thinks William pampers Ben too much.
(c) She doesn't think William tries to understand Ben.
(d) She doesn't like the way William disciplines Ben.

3. Why does Ben initially decide not to head for home in Chapter Seven?
(a) He doesn't think the storm is close.
(b) He thinks Burton might be at his house.
(c) He knows his parents are looking for him.
(d) He is looking for the female badger.

4. Instead of resting after the digging project is completed, the female badger begins to do what?
(a) Gather grasses.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Look for her mate.
(d) Bathe.

5. Burton says, when the search party is unable to locate Ben, that the boy must have gone where?
(a) Run away into town.
(b) Into the woods.
(c) Washed away in the stream.
(d) Straight up or straight down.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Burton say he can make off the male badger's pelt?

2. In 1870, the Hudson Bay Company transfers the title of its entire territory to which government?

3. As William and Esther sit down to lunch in Chapter Nine, where does William suggest Ben is?

4. As Chapter Three opens, what has prompted the string of visitors to the MacDonald farm?

5. How does the MacDonald family react to seeing the badger Burton caught?

(see the answer key)

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