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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mr. Burris?
(a) An old friend of Granddad.
(b) Jesse's uncle.
(c) The state vet.
(d) The movie theater manager in Thalia.

2. Why does the storekeeper ignore the situation with Lonnie and his friends?
(a) They are basically good boys.
(b) The Texans generally have more money.
(c) There are no cops around.
(d) The two women are obviously prostitutes.

3. What is most likely wrong with Granddad's cattle?
(a) The worse strain of hoof-and-mouth disease.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Mad cow disease.
(d) Rabies.

4. For what does Lonnie get permission the night after the state vet comes back?
(a) To go to the city.
(b) To go to the neighbor's .
(c) To go into Thalia.
(d) To skip dinner.

5. What does Lonnie do with his buddies?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Searches for clues in the hills of the source of the diseaese.
(c) Goes to a dance.
(d) Goes to the state line to get beer.

6. What does Hud do every night after work?
(a) Stays in his room in the bunkhouse drinking.
(b) Learns to read.
(c) Goes into town to dance and to rodeos.
(d) Helps care for his ailing grandmother.

7. What does the state vet do to the ranch?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Temporarily clear it for moving healthy cattle.
(c) Tell Granddad that the cattle must be shot.
(d) Put it under quarantine.

8. What does Hud say about Halmea when Lonnie asks?
(a) That Hud asked Halmea for breakfast after the kitchen was cleaned.
(b) Hud does not know why Halmea is crying.
(c) That Hud had grabbed Halmea's breast.
(d) That Halmea probably is having her women's curses.

9. What is Halmea doing in the kitchen when Lonnie carries in groceries?
(a) Sitting at the table drinking coffee.
(b) Crying and holding her breast.
(c) Making biscuits.
(d) Sharpening a butcher's knife.

10. Who returns as Lonnie is just getting up the next morning?
(a) Hud and his mother.
(b) Hud's cousin.
(c) The vet.
(d) The sheriff.

11. Where does Lonnie go when he leaves the ranch?
(a) To visit the neighbor's teenage daughter.
(b) To try to find the source of the cattle's illness.
(c) To a brothel in the city.
(d) To a pool hall in Thalia.

12. What makes the strain less dangerous?
(a) If it can infect across species.
(b) If it can be passed by touch.
(c) If it kills within 5 days.
(d) If it takes a couple weeks to kill since it then infects more.

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

14. What does the vet want to do to a few of the cattle and horses?
(a) Nothing yet.
(b) Shoot them and then examine their brains.
(c) Infect them with blood from the dead heifer.
(d) Take them to the state vet ranch for observation.

15. What does Granddad call money from oil?
(a) Private money from public interest.
(b) Easy.
(c) Meaningless.
(d) Tainted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Burris bring with him to the ranch?

2. What does Mr. Burris suggest as an alternative means for money?

3. What happens to the milk cows Granddad bought?

4. What happens to Lonnie when he is getting a cow into the chute?

5. Where does Lonnie end up the morning after hearing Hud and Granddad's conversation?

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