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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is Granddad suspicious?
(a) About what Hud will do when his mother dies.
(b) Of Hud giving Larry girlie magazines.
(c) What Hud was doing in town.
(d) What has happened to the heifer.

2. Who is Jesse?
(a) Halmea's grandson.
(b) Larry's half brother.
(c) The new hired hand.
(d) Hud's school buddy.

3. How does Larry feel about Hud?
(a) Envies him but avoids him.
(b) Adores him.
(c) Looks up to him and hopes to be like him.
(d) Hates him.

4. What does Halmea think Jesse needs?
(a) To move to California, the land of opportunity.
(b) A job on a more modern ranch.
(c) To work as a mechanic at the new service station.
(d) A wife and children.

5. What does Lonnie think young people want to do in the present?
(a) Stay on the family farms and feel connected.
(b) Eat, sleep and do drugs.
(c) Experience all the excitement they can find in life.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hud stay in town the night before he is to take Granny to the city?

2. About what does Lonnie reminisce in the Prologue?

3. Why is Granny going into the city?

4. What did Lonzo do all night?

5. What do Lonnie, Jesse and Lonzo do in Thalia?

(see the answer key)

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