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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the state vet bring on his return to the ranch?
(a) Several technicians.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) A bovine epidemiologist.
(d) No one.

2. What makes Lonnie leave the stockyard?
(a) His granddad gives him money to go buy something.
(b) His granny wants him to get some groceries.
(c) Hud tells him to get out of there.
(d) A boy who is talking incessantly.

3. Why does Hud resent Granddad about Hud going off to WWII?
(a) Granddad mistreats Hud's mother while Hud is gone.
(b) Granddad tries to keep him from enlisting.
(c) Granddad calls the army and tells them Hud has not registered for the draft.
(d) Granddad has the power to keep him out of the war and does not do so.

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

5. Of what is Granddad suspicious?
(a) About what Hud will do when his mother dies.
(b) What Hud was doing in town.
(c) What has happened to the heifer.
(d) Of Hud giving Larry girlie magazines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lonnie help Halmea?

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

3. What is most likely wrong with Granddad's cattle?

4. What do the boys agree to do?

5. What does Lonzo suggest?

(see the answer key)

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