Where the Red Fern Grows Ch. 12-14

Papa wanted Billy to go to his Grandfather's store so he could ___________. 

• Chop up wood
• Take the corn to be milled
• Clear the barn
• Help out at the store

What bet does Billy and his Grandfather make with the Pritchard boys? 

• Billy could not catch three coons in one night
• Billy couldn't chop down the Sycamore tree
• Billy's coonhounds couldn't tree the ghost coon

Why was the racoon called the ghost coon?

• The coon made a howling sound like a ghost
• The coon was white, the color of a ghost
• The coon always seemed to disappear

How was the ghost coon able to hide from so many hunters?

• He dropped down into a hollow fence post
• He climbed from the oak tree to the maple tree then down to the ground
• He could swim the river

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Old Dan gets into a fight with ________.

• Old Blue 
• The ghost coon
• a skunk

What happened to Rubin?

• He fell into the river
• He fell over the cliff
• He fell onto the ax

What did Billy do to pay his respects to Rubin? 

• He attended the funeral
• He wrote a letter to the Pritchards
• He put flowers on Rubin's grave

Why did Grandpa feel that the accident was his fault?

• He gave Billy the ax
• He wished something bad to happen to the Pritchards 
• He called the bet and gave Billy the $2

Billy, Grandpa, and Billy were leaving town to _________. 

• buy Mama a house in town
• to go to town to sell furs
• to attend the Championship Coon hunt

Grandpa, Papa, and Billy traveled in _______. 

• a train
• a buggy 
• oa mule