Where the Red Fern Grows: Chapters 7-9

Where the Red Fern Grows: Chapters 7-9

Give a summary of the last 3 chapters

Multiple Choice

"You couldn't catch a coon in a jillion years with that thing."

A jillion years is:

• 10,000,000,000

• Infinity

• a country word for a billion

• an extremely large number

Multiple Choice

Which is not another word for "peculiarity".

• foible

• unexceptional

• abnormality

• quirk

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a thimble?

Multiple Choice

"I always swore she could find the biggest switches of any woman in the Ozarks." What are "switches"?

• slender branches of a tree

• things to turn on the lights

• a type of berry

• ways to change something

Open Ended

Billy's dad says, "That way they have a fifty-fifty chance." What does this mean?

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not one of the nick names for the tree Billy cut down?

• The Giant

• The Big Tree

• The Chicken Tree

• The Protector

Multiple Choice

What does "mark my words" mean?

• tell someone to write down what they're saying

• tell someone to put it in a calendar

• tell someone to pay attention and be careful

• tell someone to hold a grudge

Trapped by his own curiosity

I had a bad case of the (ringtail) blues

I was worn down to frazzle