Shiloh Comprehension Quiz

One reason Marty didn't like Judd was that Marty once ______.

• Saw Judd cheat Mr. Wallace at the cash register.

• saw Judd steal some eggs from his family's chicken coop.

• heard Judd make fun of Dara Lynn's hand me down clothes.

• heard Judd say that book learning was for fools.

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CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

When Marty asked the name of the dog that followed him home, Judd ______.

• said he gave a dog a name only when he was sure he would keep it.

• asked Marty why he wanted to know.

• said he never named his dogs. He just numbered them.

• said he called them all "Rover".

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why didn't the Preston family have much money to spare?

• They had to pay for a tutor so Dara Lynn could keep up with her school work.

• Mr. Preston had lost one of his post office delivery routes.

• The family had to keep up the mortgage payments on the house.

• Every extra cent went to pay for Grandma Preston's care.

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CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

How did Marty get Dara Lynn to stop following him up towards Shiloh's pen?

• He said Judd was up on the hill hunting.

• He gave her a licorice stick as a bribe.

• He promised to let her practice target shooting with him when he returned.

• He told her he had seen a big, mean snake up on the hill.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What was Ma's final clue that Marty was keeping Shiloh?

• the dog hair she had seen on his shirt.

• the chew marks on Becky's rubber ball.

• her missing blue-flowered mixing bowl.

• the spoonful of squash he had set aside to eat later.

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CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

Shiloh was seriously injured when _____.

• he tangled in sharp wire as he was digging a hole to escape the pen.

• the Baker's German Shepherd leaped the pen's fence and attacked him.

• a speeding truck hit him after he ran into the road.

• he was chasing a rabbit and stepped into a trap.

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

How does Judd finally find out Marty's family had Shiloh?

• Becky was telling everyone how they had a dog now.

• Doc Murphy told him when Judd was told someone had seen a beagle at his office.

• Marty's dad went and told Judd on while on his mail route.

• Marty went over and told him he had Shiloh.

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What happened the morning Marty was supposed to give Shiloh back to Judd?

• He saw Judd shoot a deer out of season.

• He tried to give Shiloh away to a sympathetic neighbor.

• Dad invited himself along for moral support.

• Shiloh pulled free and ran away as soon as they set foot on Judd's land.

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

On Marty's first day of work, he came to think that Judd ____.

• was sorry about setting Marty to such difficult tasks.

• was going to make it so there was no way to please him enough to give him Shiloh.

• would be willing to give him a job even after Shiloh was paid for.

• could be easily distracted from work by some friendly conversation.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What did Judd do after Marty finished his last day of work?

• He gave Marty an old dog collar for Shiloh.

• He said their contract had not been legal, and Shiloh still belonged to him.

• He asked if he could visit Shiloh sometime.

• He offered to help train Shiloh.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1