Lassie Chapters 13-18

Question 1

becoming infected

Answer 1

festering

Question 2

crafty, clever

Answer 2

canny

Question 3

night watch

Answer 3

vigil

Question 4

the inability to move

Answer 4

immobility

Question 5

dull yellowish-brown color

Answer 5

tawny

Question 6

evasion

Answer 6

equivocation

Question 7

easy-going, friendly

Answer 7

affably

Question 8

money paid to retired persons

Answer 8

pension

Question 9

named

Answer 9

christened

Question 10

to withdraw from a habit

Answer 10

wean

Question 11

greedy, like a predator for food

Answer 11

ravening

Question 12

a truce or agreement to stop fighting

Answer 12

armistice

Question 13

rises of ground, high places

Answer 13

eminences

Question 14

mercury; a silver-colored liquid metal

Answer 14

quicksilver

Question 15

in a way that comforts someone sad

Answer 15

consolingly

Question 16

The Scottish man who is part of the Black Watch and refuses to shoot Lassie

Answer 16

Jock

Question 17

The woman who reprimands the dogcathcers

Answer 17

Ethelda

Question 18

The senior ranking dogcatcher

Answer 18

Fergusson

Question 19

The assistant dogcatcher

Answer 19

Donnell

Question 20

The elderly man who is Dally’s husband

Answer 20

Dan

Question 21

Besides the festering thorn, what else is Lassie injured by?

Answer 21

slamming into a rock in the river

Question 22

How does Lassie shows her pure breeding when she fights Jock and Andrew’s dog

Answer 22

fighting with perseverance

Question 23

Why is Lassie’s final escape from the dogcatchers amazing?

Answer 23

she jumps from a high window, which could have killed her

Question 24

Who did the Faddens bear the loss of?

Answer 24

their son who was killed in WWI

Question 25

Lassie’s stay at the Faddens’ is like a person staying where

Answer 25

hospital or wayside inn