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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. When do the hogs become the most vicious?
(a) When they are two years old.
(b) When being chased.
(c) When cornered.
(d) When they get old.

2. What does Little Arliss do to help get Old Yeller home?
(a) He rides on Jumper and holds Old Yeller in his lap.
(b) He helps drag the cowhide that Old Yeller is resting on.
(c) He rides on the cowhide with the dog and holds Old Yeller's head in his lap.
(d) He leads Jumper while Old Yeller is pulled behind the mule.

3. What is the trouble that Travis thinks is too big for any of them to handle?
(a) The chickens have gone wild.
(b) The Spot heifer is injured.
(c) There is a bear in the corn.
(d) The Spot heifer comes home acting crazy and ignores her calf.

4. How does Old Yeller get into the fight with the loafer wolf?
(a) The wolf attacks Old Yeller while he is getting a drink.
(b) The wolf attacks Jumper and Old Yeller jumps him.
(c) The wolf goes after Mama when she stops for water.
(d) Old Yeller tracks the wolf and catches up with him.

5. Why is Travis sickened when he looks at Spot?
(a) She is vomiting constantly.
(b) She is starving and looks like a skeleton.
(c) He knows that he has to shoot her.
(d) He sees that a wound on her side is covered in maggots.

Short Answer Questions

1. How bad is the wound inflicted on Travis by the hogs?

2. How do the pigs react when Old Yeller and Travis find them?

3. Why can't Travis sleep on the night that Sanderson tells him about hydrophobia?

4. How many hogs are near the bat cave?

5. What does the puppy look like that Lisbeth shows to Travis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Travis plans to mark the remainder of his hogs.

2. Why is Travis worried when wakes up from his nap?

3. What happens to Travis as he is marking the hogs?

4. Describe Travis' state of mind after he shoots Old Yeller.

5. Summarize what Mama must do while Travis is recuperating.

6. Describe why Mama is afraid of their wild hogs.

7. Why does Mama say that is was a good thing Old Yeller was there to save Mama and the others from the wolf, but not a good thing for Old Yeller?

8. Explain why Travis and Old Yeller head out to bat cave country.

9. Summarize how Travis and Mama get Old Yeller back to the cabin.

10. Describe the circumstances that help Travis come out of his depression over Old Yeller.

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