Shiloh Chapters 3 & 4 pages 18 - 35

1. What does Marty decide to do when he wakes up?
a) Go to Judd's house to play with Shiloh.
b) Buy Shiloh.
c) Steal Shiloh.
d) Find another dog for a pet.

2. What does Marty's dad do for a living?
a) runs a gas station
b) mailman
c) milk man
d) carpenter

3. How does Marty earn money?
a) baby sitting
b) collecting cans
c) delivering newspapers
d) selling lemonade

4. How do the people in the community feel about Marty's dad?
a) The people in the community like him so much some leave him cakes in the mailbox.
b) The people in the community think he is an OK guy.
c) The people in the community don't like him.
d) The people in the community think he is mean.

5. How does Judd treat his dogs?
a) Judd keeps them in the house and pets them all the time.
b) Judd takes good care of them.
c) Judd keeps them half starved.
d) Judd grooms his dogs for competitions.

6. What names did Judd give his dogs?
a) dog, dog, dog, and dog
b) 1, 2, 3, and 4
c) Rover, Sam, Ben, and Shiloh
d) Hey You, Yes You, Not You, Why You

7. What did Marty find about a year back?
a) Judd Travers on his land
b) a dead beagle
c) a deer eating his garden
d) a letter from Judd's father

8. Why is money in short supply at Marty's house?
a) The Prestons are paying nurses to help Grandma.
b) The Prestons are saving to buy a car.
c) Mom lost her job.
d) The Prestons have to pay high rent on their home.

9. When Judd takes him hunting, Shiloh ____________.
a) bites Judd
b) runs a rabbit into the lake
c) goes to Marty's house
d) hides in the woods

10. How does Marty make Shiloh stay on the hill while he goes back to the house to get materials to build a pen?
a) Shiloh won't stay, so Marty takes Shiloh with him.
b) Marty ties Shiloh to tree with his belt.
c) Marty just tells Shiloh to stay.
d) Mary pens Shiloh into a small cave.

11. Which statement from Shiloh contains a cause-effect relationship?
a) I don't sleep more than a couple hours that night.
b) Keep'em half starved, they'll hunt better.
c) Dad takes another bite of cornbread, looks at me for a moment, then goes on studying his cereal.
d) Becky, she comes over and crawls onto my lap.

12. The author, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, most likely wrote Shiloh to _________.
a) persuade teens to take care of their pets
b) inform the reader how to care for beagles
c) entertain students with a wonderful story about a boy and a dog
d) share ideas about how to raise beagles

13. Read this line from Shiloh.

I'm tense as a cricket that night.

This line includes which literary technique?

a) simile
b) personification
c) onomatopoeia
d) repetition

14. Which question does Chapters 3-4 answer?
a) What will happen when Marty's parents find Shiloh?
b) What will Judd do when Shiloh doesn't come home?
c) How is Marty going to hide Shiloh from his family?
d) When is Grandma's operation?



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3. (b)
4. (a)
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8. (a)
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