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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Diamond injure, forcing him to return home for a short while in The Mud Below?
(a) His arm.
(b) His knee.
(c) His neck.
(d) His back.

2. What did the rancher see in the field after dinner in The Half-Skinned Steer?
(a) The steer walking.
(b) A statue of an elk.
(c) A nun.
(d) A woman walking.

3. How does Diamond's mother feel about his choice of schools in The Mud Below?
(a) Enraged.
(b) Proud.
(c) Overjoyed.
(d) Jealous.

4. The daughter of the Tinsleys grew up to marry a __________.
(a) Businessman.
(b) Cowboy.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Doctor.

5. The store that Leeland Lee and his wife open is in the same location as ______________.
(a) His son's home.
(b) His father's ranch.
(c) The gas station.
(d) Their childhood home.

6. Where did Mero go to settle in The Half-Skinned Steer?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) New York.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Massachusetts.

7. Where does Leeland Lee's wife take a job after the loss of the meat processing plant?
(a) The newspaper.
(b) The post office.
(c) The police station.
(d) A local cafe.

8. What caused the rancher to be forgetful in The Half-Skinned Steer?
(a) Amnesia.
(b) A birth disorder.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) A plate in his head.

9. Whom does Diamond's mother take him to meet?
(a) His real father.
(b) A doctor.
(c) An old rodeo champion.
(d) An agent.

10. Who has died in The Half-Skinned Steer?
(a) Mero's sister.
(b) Mero's mother.
(c) Rollo.
(d) Mero.

11. Where does Diamond decide to go to school?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) California.
(c) Texas.
(d) New York.

12. Who threw the Tinsleys' daughter into the river?
(a) Mrs. Tinsley.
(b) Mrs. Freeze.
(c) Mrs. Dunmire.
(d) Mrs. Fanny.

13. Where did Diamond grow up in The Mud Below?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Kentucky.

14. Whom does Mero remember taking up to the caves?
(a) His sister.
(b) An anthropologist.
(c) His brother.
(d) His mother.

15. Leeland Lee and his wife take over a meat processing plant after ______________.
(a) The owner died.
(b) The owner retired.
(c) The owner was imprisoned.
(d) The owner went bankrupt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish brown body color with a black mane, tail, and ear edges?

2. What is the name of the man whose house the cowpunchers stop at for the night in The Blood Bay?

3. What does Mr. Tinsley buy his son?

4. The roper who joins Diamond on tour in The Mud Below is a ____________.

5. What does one of the cowpokes cut off the dead man?

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