Sounder Test

Which character in the book is the only one that has a name?

• the boy

• the teacher

• Sounder

• the father

Which character stole food for the family and is arrested and taken to jail?

• the boy

• the father

• the mother

• the teacher

Which character wants to teach the boy to read?

• the teacher

• the deputy

• the father

• the preacher

Which character is shot by the deputy because he runs after the father as he is being taken to jail?

• the teacher

• the mother

• the boy

• Sounder

Which character tears the cake apart that the boy has taken to the jail for his father?

• Sounder

• the guard

• the teacher

• the mother

How does the father tell the boy he got Sounder?

• that he stole him from the banker

• that he won him in a poker game

• that he found him on the road

• that his boss gave him the puppy

What food did the father steal to feed his family?

• a turkey

• a ham

• a pie

• a cake

What is one of Sounder's most noticeable traits?

• he bites strangers, especially children

• he is afraid of cats and runs from them

• he has a really loud bark

• he never barks

What does one of the men who comes to arrest the father and take him to jail do to Sounder?

• beats him with a club

• throws rocks at him

• shoots him

• gave him doggie treats

After the boy visits his father at the jail and is ready to leave, what did his father tell him?

• that he liked the jail because the food was good

• that he should bring a pie the next time he came to visit

• not to come back to the jail again to see him

• to bring him some money the next he came to visit