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WorksheetsWhere The Red Fern Grows
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What did Billy do when he needed advice about hunting coons?
He talked to his father.
He talked to a neighbor
He talked to his grandfather
He wrote to the kennel in Kentucky where he had brought the dogs
What did Billy say about his communication with his dogs?
He said they could have heart-to-heart talks together. His dogs had a language of their own that was easy for him to understand.
He said they were dumb animals who needed to be trained to take orders.
He said Little Ann was able to communicate, but Old Dan wasn’t because he was deaf.
He said Little Ann would only communicate with his sisters, and Old Dan would only communicate with him
How did Billy’s parents feel about his hunting?
They both approved wholeheartedly. They said it was the way of the mountain folk and they were proud of him for carrying on the tradition
His mother strongly disapproved and wanted him to stop. His father told him mother that he was the head of the family and would make the decision. He said it was fine.
His parents both disapproved but his grandfather convinced them to let him try it. He said Billy would get bored after a week or so and stop hunting.
His mother was worried but felt she could not stop him because of all he had done to get the dogs. His father thought it was fine because he was getting to be a man.
How old was Billy when he went coon hunting for the first time?
He was ten
He was thirteen
He was sixteen
He was twelve
True or False: Billy realized his father was talking to him like he was a man
True
False
What feeling did Billy get on his first night of hunting, when Old Dan bawled the first time? What did he do after he also heard Little Ann’s bawl?
He felt like a knot had been tied in his throat. Then he cried and whooped as the tears ran down his face
He was terrified to be out in the woods alone at night. He realized he had made a big mistake
He didn’t realize what the sounds meant. He hit the dogs and told them to be quiet and not scare away the coons
He felt like he had finally become a man, and no one could tell him what to do
Where did the hounds tree their first Coon?
They treed it in the largest sycamore on the bottoms
The treed it in his mother’s favorite shade tree near the house
They treed it in an oak tree across the river where he couldn’t go to get it
They treed it on another farmer’s property and he would not let them on to get it
What did Billy decide to do about the treed coon?
He was satisfied that they treed the coon. He said he didn’t need to kill it to prove they were competent hunters
He said he would help his dogs get the coon out of the tree no matter what it took.
He set traps around the bottom of the tree so the coon would get caught if it tried to climb down
He decided to let his father and grandfather catch the coon since they had more experience than he did
What did the members of Billy’s family think about his decision?
His parents did not like his decision but his grandfather did
None of the family members thought he was making a wise choice
His father thought he was the old enough to make his own decision. His mother and grandfather thought he should do what they wanted
His father and grandfather supported him. His mother finally agreed with him
How did Billy’s grandfather keep the coon in the tree while Billy went home to rest?
He stayed at the bottom of the tree and fired his shotgun in the air every fifteen minutes
He built a fire at the base of the tree
He made a scarecrow on the ground where the coon could see it
He had the little girls march around the tree and bang on pots and pans
Billy’s grandfather said something was driving the price of coon skins up. What was it?
People were watching the Daniel Boone series on television and wanted to own coon skin caps like Daniel Boone’s
The government was getting ready to regulate the number of coons that could be killed, so people were buying as much as they could before the regulations went into effect.
There was coon skin coat fad in New England, and coon skins were in high demand
The coons in a few neighboring states had a disease that made their skins unusable. The skins from Oklahoma were in the best around at the time
What was the outcome of Billy’s efforts?
He gave up and left the tree alone
He asked his father and grandfather to help him and they chopped the tree down.
He succeeded in chopping through the entire tree in five days
He chopped through most of the tree, and then the wind blew it over
What happened to the first coon hide?
Mama made a coonskin cap for Billy
Billy gave it to his mother to make a fur collar for her coat
Billy gave it to his sisters to use as a doll blanket
Grandpa took it and hung it up in the store
What did Billy do with the money he made for selling the coon skins?
He kept it in his K.C. baking Powder can
He gave it to his grandfather to put in his bank account
He gave the money to his father
He bought clothes and other things for the family, including a mule for his father
What were Old Dan’s predicaments, and how were they resolved?
Old Dan climbed a tree and couldn’t get down. Billy climbed a ladder to bring him down. He also got his paw stuck in a steel trap and Billy pried it loose
Old Dan got too close to a skunk and was sprayed. Billy gave him a bath every day for two weeks to get the smell out, he also got stuck in a beaver den, and Billy and Little Ann dug him out
Old Dan fell into a patch of poison ivy. Billy petted him and they both had poison ivy for several weeks. He also tried to hum a barbed wire fence and got cut up
Old Dan got stuck in an old muskrat den, and Billy and Little Ann dug him out. He also climbed up inside a hollow tree and out onto a branch. Billy climbed up after him and pushed him back down the hole.
