What is a good title for chapter 20?
Saying Goodbye to Little Ann and Old Dan
The Move
The Red Fern
The Red Fern
100
What is a cause?
The reason something happens.
100
What is a colorless liquid that is often used as an antiseptic?
peroxide
100
What is it that happened to Little Ann after Old Dan's death?
She died of a broken heart.
100
What is literary technique represented in the following statement? “When the girls giggled, my blood boiled.”
Personification
200
What is the main conflict in chapter 19?
Person v. Nature
Billy and the dogs v. the mountain lion
200
What is an effect?
The result of an action.
200
What is a word that defines something shockingly frightful or dreadful?
ghastly.
200
What was the cause of death of the devil cat?
Billy's keen double bitted ax.
200
What is literary technique represented in the following statement? Her face was as white as the bark on a sycamore tree.
A simile.
300
What is a good headline for chapter 19?
The Battle
The Devil Cat
Old Dan and Little Ann's Final Hunt
The Battle
300
What is the cause/effect relationship in the second paragraph on page 224?
As I neared the tree, Little Ann came to me, reared up, and whined. By her actions, I knew something was wrong.
300
What is a source of widespread dreadful devastation caused by evil or war?
scourge
300
What happened to Billy's family at the end of chapter 20?
They moved to the city.
300
What is literary technique represented in the following statement? "They sailed strait into those jaws of death."
A Metaphor.
400
What is NOT a main event in chapter 19?
Billy inspected his dogs.
The mountain lion sprang from the tree.
The screams of the mountain lion echoed through the mountains.
The screams of the mountain lion echoed through the mountains.
400
What is the cause in the following sentence? Following the snakelike pattern with my eyes, I knew exactly where I was, for I knew every bend in the river.
I knew every bend in the river.
400
What is a word that describes a finely sharpened instrument?
keen
400
What is legend of the red fern?
...only an angel could plant the red fern, and it never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred. (246)
400
What is literary technique represented in the following statement? "Feeling as cold as the arctic wind, I got up and stumbled to a chair."
A simile.
500
What is NOT a main event in chapter 20?
The family left the Ozarks in good spirits.
Sammie scurried and disappeared under the barn as they were leaving.
Billy found a tall, beautiful red fern between the graves.
Billy calls his family, and they feel it is God's way of explaining to Billy why his dogs have died.
Sammie scurried and disappeared under the barn as they were leaving.
500
What is the cause of Old Dan's death?
He was disemboweled by the mountain lion.
500
What are cords or dense, tough tissue serving to connect the muscle to the bone?
sinews
500
What is the good that came from the "evil" of Old Dan and Little Ann's death? (See page 228)
Teacher's Discretion
500
What is literary technique represented in the following statement? “Old Dan… sat down and with his deep voice told the river bottoms that he had been hurt."