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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 keeps Travis and Old Yeller busy all night long?
(a) Chasing a coyote away from the hen house.
(b) Preventing a cougar from attacking the sheep.
(c) Keeping a bear away from the cabin.
(d) Chasing away coons, skunks, and coyotes from the garden.

2. What does Travis ask his father for before he leaves?
(a) A horse.
(b) A new rifle.
(c) A dog.
(d) A Bowie knife.

3. What does Old Yeller do when the bear slaps him head over heels?
(a) He crawls away.
(b) He lies on the ground.
(c) He staggers into the bushes.
(d) He charges again.

4. What does Travis notice about Old Yeller when he first sees the dog?
(a) The dog is lame.
(b) The dog is fat.
(c) The dog is starving.
(d) The dog is injured.

5. How does the bull fight finally end?
(a) Travis shoots at them.
(b) The bulls give up and stagger away with their wounds.
(c) One of the bulls falls in the cart and it rolls down the hill.
(d) The old bull is killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who named Birdsong Creek?

2. What changes Travis' mind about keeping the yeller dog as he rides to the cabin?

3. What does Mama make Arliss take out of his pockets before he goes to bed?

4. What does Travis decide to do about Old Yeller?

5. What sound does Travis recognize that he has heard only once before?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the fight between the two bulls.

2. Summarize how Old Yeller controls the heifer, Spot.

3. Describe the situation when Travis shoots the deer.

4. What is the reaction of Little Arliss and Mama to the big dog?

5. Describe what Travis reveals about his relationship with Old Yeller in the beginning of the chapter.

6. Explain what Old Yeller does when Travis comes out of the cabin with the whip.

7. Explain what Old Yeller does to save Little Arliss from certain death.

8. Summarize Travis' feelings for Bud Searcy's daughter, Lisbeth.

9. Describe the bulls that come near the cabin to fight with one another.

10. Why do Travis and Old Yeller sleep in the corn patch?

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