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Ron Hansen, My Kid’s Dog

Ron Hansen, My Kid’s Dog

Read My Kid’s Dog and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. The dog’s first hateful image of the man is

the man’s squirt gun in his face.

the muzzle the man carries in his car.

the man’s boot kicking him.

the man’s rolled newspaper.

2. The man hates the dog because

of the thousands of abject refusals to obey.

the dog is not a cat.

the dog chews his new shoes.

the dog eats the kids’ homework.

3. At age ten, the dog dies

from being run over (after slipping away from the house when the man carelessly left the front-yard gate open).

because he develops incontinence and is “put down” by the man.

during his nap.

because he bites the man’s daughter and has to be “put down.”

4. The man buries the dog in the back yard, then

he digs up the dog to be sure he is dead and not merely asleep.

he whangs down his shovel on the dog’s head (to be sure).

he holds the dog’s head underwater to check for air bubbles.

A and B above.

5. The man digs up the dog a second time

because he must have him checked by the vet to be sure he did not have rabies.

and begins carrying him to the vet’s in an old leather suitcase.

and loses him when a slacker in an Olds 88 steals the suitcase.

and is discovered by his disconsolate daughter, so he promises her they can get another puppy just like Sparky.

A and B above.

A–D above.