Where the Red Fern Grows chapters 12-15

What did Papa want Billy to do for him?

• Gather fire wood

• Take the corn to be milled

• clean the barn

• go help Grandpa at the store

What bet does Grandpa and Billy make with Rubin and Rainie?

• Billy's hounds could catch the ghost coon

• Billy could not catch three coons in one night

• Billy couldn't chop down the big sycamore

• That Billy could not stay up all night long and hunt without falling asleep

Why was the raccoon called the ghost coon?

• The coon made a howling sound like a ghost

• the coon was white, the color of a ghost

• The coon seemed to disappear when he reached the huge oak tree

• The coon could run so fast, it seemed like it was floating

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

• He dropped down into a hollow fence post

• He climbed from the oak tree to the maple then down to the ground

• He could swim the river

• He went through an underground tunnel

Old Dan gets into a fight with who?

• the ghost coon

• Old Blue

• a skunk

• a porcupine

What happened to Rubin?

• He fell over a cliff

• He was bitten by a mountain lion

• He fell on an ax

• He fell in the river

What did Billy do to pay his respects?

• went to the funeral

• wrote a letter to the Pritchards

• put flowers on Rubin's grave

• took a pie to the Pritchard's home

Why did Grandpa feel like the accident was his fault?

• He gave Billy the ax

• He wished something bad would happen to the Pritchards

• He called the bet and gave Billy the $2

Billy, Grandpa, and Papa were going where?

• to buy Mama a house in town

• to the Championship Coon Hunt

• to town to sell furs

• to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee

How did they travel to the contest?

• Mule

• Train

• Buggy

• walking