1 Who is the main character in this story? Myop Jerome Alice Jane 2 How old is the main character? Ten Twenty-seven Fifteen Six 3 Where does Myop live? A large city A desert An island A sharecropper's cabin 4 What does Myop enjoy doing? Gathering flowers Tapping her stick along the fence Watching pigs root by the banks of a small river All of these 5 What best describes Myop's emotional state at the beginning of the story? She is curious about the sounds she heard behind the house She thinks that the days are beautiful She is sad because her mother was crying She is fearful because her father didn't come home last night 6 What type of flowers does Myop find? Yellow flowers Purple flowers Blue flowers Red flowers 7 What did Myop step on? A landmine A snake The face of a dead man A rabbit 8 What best describes the dead man? He was only a skeleton He had been very short He had been very tall He had not been dead for a very long time 9 What detail indicates that the man had been dead for a long time? His clothes have rotten away and his overall buttons have turned green He has a newspaper from six months ago lying next to him She recognizes his face from a missing-person sign He is wearing nineteenth-century clothing 10 What item does Myop see that indicates how this man died? A rifle A dead bear A noose A gun 11 What does Myop see growing near the item that indicates how the man died? Poison ivy Nothing A red fern A pink rose 12 What does Myop do with her flowers? Throws them away Places them next to the dead man Brings them to her mother Feeds them to the pigs 13 What best describes the meaning of the sentence "And then the summer was over"? Myop's life was over The seasons have changed Myop has lost her innocence Myop has spent a very long time wandering in the woods
