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Where the Red Fern Grows

Answer the following questions by using the hyperlinks listed below. (Hint: the questions are not necessarily in the same order as the hyperlinks.)

1. For what are coonhounds trained?

2. List four types of coonhounds.

3. What type of coonhound was portrayed in Where the Red Fern Grows? 

4. What did southerners call this type of coonhound and why?

5. How long did the Dust Bowl last?

6. What caused the Dust Bowl?

7. Name five states that were impacted by the Dust Bowl.

8. What event did much to create the Great Depression?

9. Explain why Oklahoma started the Depression early.

10. Besides farming, name two other industries affected badly by the Great Depression.

11. Besides the crash of 1929 of the Stock Market, list three other causes of the Great Depression.

12. When was W. Wilson Rawls born?

13. What was his parent's name?

14. Rawls was born on the family farm. From where did the family get the farm?

15. What book by what famous author most influenced Rawls?

16. What was Rawls' wife's name?

17. What did Rawls do with all of his stories just before he married?

18. When did Rawls dies?

19. Of what did Rawls die?

20. How old was Rawls when he died?

21. In Indian folklore who is the raccoon?

22. What is the raccoon's scientific name?

23. List six things raccoons like to eat.

24. Why should you not feed a raccoon by hand?

25. How long is the average lifespan of the raccoon?

26. What is a distinctive physical trait of a raccoon?

27. What Spanish explorer first encountered the Cherokee?

28. What happened to the 135,000 square miles of Cherokee land?

29. What was the Removal Treaty?

30. How long was the Trail of Tears?

31. How many days did it take to complete the journey along the Trail of Tears?

32. During what time period was the Trail of Tears?

33. How many Indians were moved either by wagon or boat?

34. How many Indians died during the removal?

35. To what state were the Cherokee moved?

36. List the four states which contain portions of the Ozarks.

37. What is probably the origin of the word 'Ozarks'?

38. Describe the ethnic and religious make up of the population of the Ozarks.

39. How much do mountain lions weigh?

40. How long is a mountain lion?

41. What does carnivorous mean?

42. What does a mountain lion eat?

43. How many mountain lions exist today in Colorado?

44. Describe Depression glass.

45. For what did many women use chicken feed sacks in the 1930's?

46. What was the credo of the Depression years?

47. Is the credo from the Depression years still followed today?

48. Name two popular inventions of the 1930's.

49. What are nocturnal animals?

50. What animal in Where the Red Fern Grows is nocturnal?

51. What is the superstition about burning ears?

52. Explain why we blow out candles on a birthday cake.

53. Why do we knock on wood to prevent bad luck?

54. Native American Indians have many legends and tales of lore. Choose from the list of tales and summarize the story.