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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jesse do as the others return to the house?
(a) Go to visit his girlfriend who is the cook at the nearest neighbor's.
(b) Go to search for the heifer.
(c) Stay in the pasture.
(d) Go into town to call the state vet.

2. Why is Mr. Burris dismayed?
(a) Because Jesse is working as a ranch hand.
(b) Because Granny is not there for him to see her.
(c) Because Lonnie and his friends made so much noise in the show.
(d) Because they opened up the heifer's carcass.

3. Who is Newt Garrett?
(a) The principal at Larry's school.
(b) A man Hud beat in poker.
(c) The local horse doctor.
(d) Granny's doctor.

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

5. Why doesn't Granddad want to call the state vet?
(a) He hasn't the money to pay the man.
(b) He doesn't want the government to shut him down.
(c) He will call the man when they find the heifer.
(d) He hates the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hud resent Granddad about Hud going off to WWII?

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

3. What is Larry's grandmother's most outstanding characteristic?

4. What does Newt say about the heifer?

5. What does the state vet do to the ranch?

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