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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about his appearance when he arrives at this farm?
(a) he has a new white doctor's coat
(b) he has shaved his head
(c) he is wearing his pajamas
(d) he has no coat and it is cold

2. When the book begins what is James Herriot called to do?
(a) operate on a dog who has be kicked by a horse
(b) help a bull which has gone down and cannot get up
(c) put down a horse
(d) deliver a calf

3. Who goes to Crawford's farm to deliver some ointment?
(a) Miss Harbottle
(b) Herriot
(c) Dr. Harnon
(d) Tristan

4. What is given to Herriot at the end of this chapter?
(a) a bottle of wine
(b) a cup of coffee
(c) a bag of coins
(d) a used cigar

5. What illness does Dan Cooper's cow have?
(a) foundering
(b) can't deliver a calf
(c) milk fever
(d) mastitis

6. Following the prolapse episode, Herriot pulls a practical joke on what character?
(a) Seigfried
(b) Tristan
(c) Broadman
(d) Dr. Farnon

7. What happens because of this discovery?
(a) Miss Harbottle scolds Dr. Farnon
(b) Dr. Farnon and Herriot have a fight
(c) Dr. Farnon and Tristan have a fight
(d) Herriot must repay the money

8. What is wrong with the cow the vets visit in chapter 3?
(a) it needs help delivering
(b) mastitis
(c) it has a sore mouth
(d) it has a sore hoof

9. What interesting custom does Herriot observe in the Cooper's home?
(a) putting their feet in hot water
(b) eating a meal on the floor
(c) eating fresh sausage
(d) not speaking at a meal

10. What kind of animal does Terry Watson own and Herriot treats?
(a) a young goat
(b) a boar hog
(c) a milk cow
(d) a newborn lamb

11. Herriot has to go and stay with what character?
(a) Angus Grier
(b) Crawford
(c) Don Collins
(d) Mrs. Pumphrey

12. In chapter 11, what must Herriot do, which is difficult?
(a) put an elderly man's dog down
(b) put down a family's only milk cow
(c) put down a prize horse
(d) put down a sick lamb

13. What does Herriot find is wrong with the dog when he arrives?
(a) pharyngitis
(b) nothing
(c) it is having an allergic reaction
(d) it does have a bone in its throat

14. This animal has a number of health issues, many are caused by what?
(a) Mrs. Pumphrey is poor
(b) Mrs. Pumphrey is ill
(c) Mrs. Pumphrey is too old to care for her animal
(d) Mrs. Pumphrey pampers her animal too much

15. During this account an animal does something to Herriot, what is it?
(a) a dog bites him on the hand
(b) a cat attacks him
(c) a horse picks him up by its mouth
(d) a horse kicks him

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the outcome of Herriot's treatment of the cow?

2. When Mrs. Pumphrey calls again about Nugent, what problem does she say he has?

3. In chapter 31, what is Herriot called on to do?

4. In this same chapter, Herriot also operates on a horse that has what problem?

5. Who is supposed to answer the phone each morning at the vet's office?

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