Old Yeller Chapter 10

1. What special thing does Travis want to see on the other side of Salt Branch?

• the swallows’ nests

• the roaring river

• the bat caves

• the pine forest

2. What mistake does Travis make when he is marking the pigs?

• He stands on a cliff where the earth is not stable and falls into the center of the boars.

• He gets into the middle of the boars and tries to get the piglets away.

• He turns around and is rammed in the back by a hog.

• He is backed next to a cliff by the boars and has no way of escaping.

3. What happened during Travis's last hog roping excursion?

• Old Yeller chased a wolf that was stalking the hogs.

• He was pulled off the bank by a huge hog he'd roped.

• The dirt bank he was on gave way, and a wild hog slashed his leg.

• He found the hogs feeding on a cow's carcass.

4. How did Travis find Old Yeller after the hog fight?

• He heard him bark.

• He saw buzzards circling.

• He heard him whine.

• He saw his paw prints.

5. Why did Travis want to get momma?

• She would fix Travis’s cut.

• He needed her to find Yeller.

• He was really scared.

• She would know what to do.

6. "Carefully, I eased his (Old Yeller's) entrails back into place." What are entrails?

• His tendons in his legs that were sticking out.

• His intestines that were coming out of his belly.

• His paws that were full of thorns that needed pulled.

• A trail that led to the bat caves.

7. Where did Travis put Old Yeller?

• In a hole in the bat caves where he could be out of the sun.

• On the back of a wagon pulled by Jumper and Travis took him home.

• On the sandy beach where the hogs had attacked Old Yeller.

• On a rock slab in a hole under the river bank with a tree stump to keep him inside.

8. The chapter ends with Old Yeller howling: "His howl followed me. It was the most mournful howl I ever heard." Why was Old Yeller so sad?

• He had lost to the hogs and he hated losing.

• He didn't want Travis to leave him behind.

• He was calling for Little Arliss to save him.

• Burn Sanderson was taking him away.

9. Why did Travis go back out to mark the hogs again?

• Bud Searcy paid a visit and told him about the hogs he missed.

• Travis loved gathering hogs so much he wanted to do it again.

• The Coates family needed more pigs to get more cash money.

• Travis wanted to take Little Arliss with him.

10. A hog could be tough enough to eat prickly-pear apples with their millions of little hair-like spines. This shows...

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia