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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Buck stuff into the bee hive to trick the bees out of it?

2. What is the name of Grandma Hutto's little white dog?

3. What unusual animal does the Baxter family have drying in their smoke house?

4. While hunting for Grandma Hutto, how many bucks do Penny and Jody kill?

5. On the day that Jody returns from the Forrester's home, what meat does Penny have cooking in the smokehouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Jody and Mill Wheel discuss while they are out in the woods searching for the fawn?

3. What significant even happened when Jody Baxter was two years old?

4. What plan does Jody concoct to persuade his parents that he is mature enough to take on the fawn as a pet?

5. How does the Baxter family prepare the buck that Penny shoots with his new gun?

6. While Penny and Jody are hunting for Grandma Hutto, a buck is killed. Describe both Jody's and Penny's roles in the buck's death.

7. After living through the fistfight, what does Jody realize about Oliver Hutto?

8. What happens when Jody goes swimming at Grandma Hutto's house?

9. How is Julia injured by Old Slewfoot?

10. What does Jody realize when he visits Fodder Wing's collection of pets after Fodder Wing's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fodder Wing played an important role in Jody's relationship with animals.

Part 1.) Explain who Fodder Wing is and how he got his name.

Part 2.) Compare/contrast Fodder Wing and Jody's relationships with the animals of the woods.

Part 3.) Theorize how Fodder Wing would have reacted to Flag's fate.

Essay Topic 2

Penny Baxter spends most of his life priding himself on his honesty. Choose one situation where Penny used honesty to get him out of a sticky situation and one situation when Penny chose to lie. How does the dichotomy of truth and lies present itself as a theme in the novel through Penny's character?

Essay Topic 3

When the wolves enter the Baxter family land, they cause chaos in the family.

Part 1.) Describe the way that the wolves directly affect life for the Baxters on the farm.

Part 2.) Compare/contrast the ways that the Baxters and the Forresters propose to get rid of the wolves and the conflict that arises due to their disagreement.

Part 3.) Explain the aftereffects of killing the wolves on both the people and animals involved.

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