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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26 - 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Herriot's Flight Commander?
(a) Harrnish.
(b) Beames.
(c) Barnes.
(d) Skeldale.

2. What are the names of the couple whose Golden Retriever is run over by a car?
(a) John and Mary Gilford.
(b) Jim and Lucy Gothworth.
(c) Peter and Minerva Goddard.
(d) Peter and Marjorie Gilliard.

3. What does Herriot consider his Bible during his early veterinarian practice?
(a) Udall's Practice of Veterinary Medicine.
(b) Harvey's Rules of Veterinarians.
(c) Smith's Book of Veterinary Practice.
(d) The Wallace Book of Veterinary Medicine.

4. Who is Herriot's flying instructor?
(a) Flying Officer Worthham.
(b) Flying Officer Cromwell.
(c) Flying Officer Hartley.
(d) Flying Officer Woodham.

5. According to vets in Herriot's time what is the worst sign of all in bovines?
(a) The eyes begin to retreat into the head.
(b) Continual vomiting.
(c) They lose their appetitie completely.
(d) Extreme diarrhea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the retired shepherd who sat in the same place every night at the Fox and Hounds?

2. How does Herriot describe Helen's maternity dress?

3. Who is the Flight Sergeant who surprises James at his niceness about the baby?

4. What is the fee James gets for the only doctoring he had done on a human?

5. Who cured Mr. Bailes' cow of her ailment?

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