WorksheetsMy Side of the Mountain: Chapters 6-12
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Birds with dark olive-gray feathers
jesses
chickadees
ninepins
wood pewees
Sam's raccoon friend
(a)
Variation of the name of the naive heroine in Shakespeare's Othello
Desdemondia
Cordelia
Ophelia
Titania
Bando affectionately calls Sam the same name as this nineteenth century American writer
Twain
Dickens
Thoreau
Frost
A British game similar to bowling
Eightpins
Ninepines
Tenpins
Nopins
National League
Football
Soccer
Basketball
Baseball
Speckled
Preened
Stroobly
Furtive
Threadbare
A thickened root
Tuber
Strooble
Jesse
Deadfall
Illegally hunting
Angling
Fowling
Hawking
Poaching
Having an appetizing taste
Sweet
Savory
Sour
Stroobly
A trap consisting of a heavy weight
Deadfall
Allurement
Ruse
Ambuscade
Thin and tattered
Tubered
Shaggy
Threadbare
Stroobly
Leather straps fastened around each leg of a bird
Frightful
jesses
deadfalls
tubers
Secretively
Wavery
Gribley
Stroobly
Furtively
Straightened and cleaned feathers with beak
Preened
Pruned
Plumed
Rectified
Why does Sam name the falcon chick Frightful?
Frightful's mother was scared.
She was scared.
He had difficulty capturing her.
How does Sam get a deer?
He asks Bando to shoot it so they won't starve.
He carries home a deer that a hunter shot but could not find.
He sends Frightful to locate it.
He uses a lure.
How does Sam train his falcon to catch prey?
He trains her with a lure.
He trains her with a deadfall.
He trains her with jesses.
What does Sam scare into the air when he trains his falcon to catch prey?
The Baron Weasel
Jessie Coon James
A chickadee
A sparrow
Why does Sam call the old man Bando?
He reminds him of another bandit: Jessie James.
He thinks he is running from the law.
He falls, cuts his leg, and needs a band-aid.
Who is Sam referring to when he says, "No other animal, and I knew quite a few by now, had been so brave in my presence."
(a)
