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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Herriot see Tristan manage to do?
(a) Get farmers to sneak bottles of whiskey into his car.
(b) Get a farmer to feed him tea while delivering a calf.
(c) Not show any signs of pain while working with a broken wrist.
(d) Get invited to three different dinners in the same day.

2. Why is Siegfried able to comply with Miss Dooley's request?
(a) He happens to be there at the right time.
(b) He has more experience.
(c) He is more accomodating that Herriot.
(d) He and Miss Dooley are good friends.

3. What does Herriot think might have caused Kitson's dying ewe to recover?
(a) The care and love she received.
(b) The lamb for her to take care of.
(c) Relief from the pain and suffering.
(d) The antibiotics.

4. How do Frank's cows get sick?
(a) The byre was unsanitary.
(b) Nobody knows.
(c) From a new cow Frank bought at market.
(d) The pasture was contaminated.

5. Why was Roland Partridge considered an unlikely character in Darrowby?
(a) He refused to buy a house and lived off the land.
(b) He dressed unusually.
(c) Although his background was farming he was an artist.
(d) He prefered cats to dogs,

6. What was wrong with Mr. Thwaite's cow?
(a) She calf was stillborn.
(b) She had a severe copper deficiency .
(c) She had a broken leg.
(d) She delivered her uterus.

7. Why was the conversation with Mr. Fryer frustrating for Herriot?
(a) Mr. Fryer would not stop cursing while explaining what was wrong.
(b) Mr. Fryer was consistently vague with his answers.
(c) Mr. Fryer's voice was high pitched and sometimes hard to understand.
(d) Mr. Fryer was constantly busy so Herriot couldn't get him to commit to a time.

8. How did Mr. Partridge react to the mob of dogs?
(a) He cried when they wouldn't leave him alone.
(b) He treated them as his own.
(c) He yelled songs to drown out the howls.
(d) He beat them back with a stick.

9. Why does the disease have such serious ramifications for Frank?
(a) The locals already doubted his ability.
(b) It causes the cows to abort and not produce milk.
(c) It was caused by the byre he built.
(d) It kills the cattle.

10. What mistake does Herriot make each time he visits Miss Dooley?
(a) He misdiagnoses Cindy's condition.
(b) He arrives at the wrong time.
(c) He calls her by the wrong name.
(d) He forgets to bring the right drugs.

11. How does Mr. Wiggin use more of Herriot's time than Herriot feels is necessary?
(a) By talking to him incessantly.
(b) By making him walk to a barn far away.
(c) By trying to lasso all the cows for an injection.
(d) By cuddling each cow before allowing Herriot to inject them.

12. What do the Horners feed Herriot for breakfast one morning when they call him out early?
(a) Two huge slabs of fat.
(b) An entire meal that has been cooked in bacon fat.
(c) An entire meal cooked without any fat.
(d) Sausage made with some fat.

13. What chance does Herriot take before euthanizing Penny?
(a) Doubling the dosage of the medicine.
(b) Threatening to call the authorities.
(c) Sedating her heavily for several days to break the cycle.
(d) Taking her to the clinic to heal.

14. What does Walt Bennett do that angers Siegfried?
(a) Yell at him over the phone.
(b) Doubt his competence.
(c) Ridicule him in front of other clients.
(d) Mistreat a horse.

15. Why does Helen go with Herriot when he leaves the Daffodil Ball on his call?
(a) She needed a lift home.
(b) He asked her if she wanted to.
(c) The call is her father's prize bull.
(d) Richard Edmundson was drunk and she wanted to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What odd tools did Mr. Ross require to fix the animal?

2. Despite his good lineage, why can't Gyp's owner breed Gyp?

3. Why does Mr. Dacre's bull pin Herriot against the boards?

4. What did the A.A man say to Herriot?

5. As Penny, the poodle with gastroenteritis, get worse and worse, what does Herriot suspect is keeping her from getting better?

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