Where the Red Fern Grows - Chapters 6-8

How did Billy catch his first raccoon?

• With his steel traps.
• With a trap his dad showed him how to make.
• With his dogs
• With a trap his grandpa showed him how to make.

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Why was it so important to Billy to cut down the large sycamore tree that his dogs had chased the raccoon to?

• He didn't want to let his dogs down.
• He didn't want to let his grandpa down.
• He needed the money from the raccoon hide.
• Billy wanted to let everyone know that he could cut down that large tree.

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Where did Billy get the idea for his dogs' names?

• a tree

• his head

• his sisters

• his father

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Why does Papa say that Grandpa's raccoon trap is "unsportsmanlike"?

• they weren't built right

• they won't catch a raccoon

• it hurts the raccoons too much

• the raccoons don't have a chance

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Why do Mama and Papa want to move to town?

• so their children can get an education

• it is a more modern and clean place

• dogs aren't allowed there

• mama likes the fashion there

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How did Mama feel about Billy going hunting?

• worried

• excited

• proud

• ecstatic

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In chapter 7, Billy needs a raccoon skin to do what?

• make himself a raccoon skin cap

• train his dogs to hunt

• prove that he is a good hunter

• sell them to Grandpa for money

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Which dog is larger, more aggressive, and unpredictable?

• Old Dan

• Little Ann

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Which piece of text is the best example of personification?

• "I kept the side of our smokehouse plastered with hides."

• "I saw her when she passed me going up the bank, sniffing and searching for the trail."

• "At first I was mad but one look at dancing Little Ann and all was forgiven."

• "The first half hour was torture. At each swing of the ax my arms felt like they were being torn from their sockets."

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"By the time I had reached the river, every never in my body was drawn up as tight as a fiddle string." Identify the figurative language in this sentence.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

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