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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lonzo do all night?
(a) Keep Hud from doing something stupid.
(b) Sleep in the hayloft with a woman.
(c) Work on the book he is writing.
(d) Guard the cow from buzzards.

2. What is Larry's grandmother's most outstanding characteristic?
(a) Spitefullness.
(b) Crabbiness with complaints.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Generosity.

3. What else has technology done?
(a) Helped save Lonnie's father's life.
(b) Changed things forever.
(c) Made Lonnie's family lose their farm.
(d) Helped save Lonnie's sister's life.

4. What do Lonnie, Jesse and Lonzo do in Thalia?
(a) Register for school.
(b) Try to pick up girls.
(c) Go to the movies.
(d) Have ice cream at the soda fountain.

5. What does the state vet take with him for examination?
(a) The heifer's tongue.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Blood specimens from several other of the cattle.
(d) The heifer's brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mr. Burris dismayed?

2. Who is Jesse?

3. What was life like before the arrival of mass communication?

4. What does Lonnie think young people want to do in the present?

5. Who does Lonnie see in Thalia?

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