Where the Red Fern Grows

Chapter 6 Quiz
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Answer the questions based on Chapter 5

6. Why does Billy’s father think their family should move to town?
A. because children need to buy supplies and grocery in the
1. What is Billy’s plan about bringing the dogs home?
town stores
A. He decides he would tell the truth to his parents.
B. because children need to get an education and meet
B. He decides he would lie to his parents about where he
people
got them.
C. because children cannot survive alone in the woods
C. He decides to hide them in the shack behind their house.
D. He does not believe they need to move to the town.
D. He decides to only tell his siblings about the dogs.

7. What did Billy actually slide down (previously at the end of

2. Where does Billy get the idea for the dogs’ names?
Chapter 4)?
A. from a magazine
A. a normal slide
B. from the K.C. Baking Powder can
B. a fire escape
C. from a sycamore tree
C. a drain pipe
D. from the sizes of the dogs
D. a garbage can

3. Who or What does Billy think helped him come up with the
8. Based on this chapter, the readers can conclude that:
dogs’ names?
A. Billy has a loving family
A. God
B. Billy’s parents will punish him if he goes off to town on
B. his grandpa
his own again
C. the marshal
C. Billy’s sisters will want their own pets now that Billy has
D. the Stationmaster
his own coon dogs

4. How does Billy’s family react when he arrives home? D. Little Ann and Old Dan will grow into great hunting pups

A. cheerful, and careless

B. shocked, but relieved
C. calm, and relaxed
D. furious, and unforgiving

5. As Billy explains to his family about his visit to the town, what
causes his sisters’ “blue eyes to open wide”?
A. when he tells them that the schoolhouse was made of
red brick and was bigger than grandpa’s store
B. when he tells them that he was jumped and beat up by
the boys
C. when he tells them that the people stared at him and
even laughed at him
D. when he tells them that the marshal gave him a soda pop