Billy's father talked to him ______________________.

1.   ?    like he was a small boy
2.   ?    like he was a man
3.   ?    about how to hunt
4.   ?    about how to treat his younger sisters

Mama felt ________________ about Billy going hunting.

1.   ?    sorrowful
2.   ?    excited
3.   ?    worried
4.   ?    glad

What surprise did Billy get as he started to go hunting the first time?

1.   ?    Papa gave Billy a new lantern.
2.   ?    Billy's dogs were on the porch waiting as if they knew they were going hunting.
3.   ?    Billy's sisters made him a special card.
4.   ?    Mama whispered a special prayer to Billy.

The first trick the coon played on Little Ann and Old Dan was _______________.

1.   ?    crossing the river
2.   ?    climbing a fence rail
3.   ?    going into a cave
4.   ?    ducking under the log

When the dogs treed the coon, _____________.

1.   ?    it was turning daylight
2.   ?    Billy couldn't find his ax
3.   ?    it was in a giant sycamore tree
4.   ?    it was with a second coon

Billy had named this sycamore tree _____________.

1.   ?    "the enormous wonder"
2.   ?    "the big tree"
3.   ?    "the marvelous giant"
4.   ?    "God's gift"

Why did Billy NOT leave the coon in the big sycamore and look for another coon that would be easier to catch?

1.   ?    Billy knew it was too late to find another coon that night.
2.   ?    Billy had always wanted to cut down a large tree.
3.   ?    Billy had made a promise to his dogs.
4.   ?    Billy did not want to go home and tell his family he had not been successful.

Billy's sisters wanted to look in his eyes _______________.

1.   ?    to see if he was crazy
2.   ?    to see if he had a splinter in it
3.   ?    to see if he was crying

This chapter is mainly about _______________.

1.   ?    little sisters
2.   ?    tricks raccoons can play
3.   ?    chopping down a big sycamore tree
4.   ?    Billy's first coon hunt

Based on this story it is likely that ______________.

1.   ?    Billy will give up catching the coon in the giant sycamore tree
2.   ?    Billy will figure out a way to catch the coon in the giant sycamore tree
3.   ?    Little Ann and Old Dan will climb the giant sycamore tree and capture the coon
4.   ?    the giant sycamore tree will fall down on its own so that Billy can catch the coon

Which statement from Chapter 8 contains a cause-effect relationship?

1.   ?    This was what I had prayed for, worked and sweated for, my own little hounds bawling on the trail of a river coon.
2.   ?    The coon had pulled a simple trick. He had run out on the drift, leaped into the water, and crossed the river.
3.   ?    Little Ann came to me. I could see the pleading in her warm gray eyes.
4.   ?    I realized that on striking the river the animal had again turned and was coming straight toward me, so I jumped behind a big sycamore and was trying hard to press my body into the tree when a big coon came tearing by.

Which excerpt from Chapter 8 best supports the author's belief that Billy will succeed in cutting down the giant tree?

1.   ?    My sister got upset. She looked at me, threw back her small head, and looked up to the top of the big sycamore. "You're as crazy as a bedbug," she said.
2.   ?    The food did wonders for me. My strength came back. I spit on my hands and, whistling a coon hunter's tune, I started making the chips fly.
3.   ?    My arms felt like two dead grapevines, and my back felt like someone had pulled a plug out of one end of it and drained all the sap out.
4.   ?    By sunup I was so stiff I could hardly move. My hands and arms were numb. My back screamed with pain. I could go no further.