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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lonzo do all night?
(a) Keep Hud from doing something stupid.
(b) Guard the cow from buzzards.
(c) Sleep in the hayloft with a woman.
(d) Work on the book he is writing.

2. What does Halmea do that is meaningful to Lonnie?
(a) She sponges his face.
(b) She brings him lemonade.
(c) She reads to him while he is sick.
(d) She kisses him on the forehead.

3. What wakes Lonnie in the night?
(a) Granny having a heart attack.
(b) Hud's shouts.
(c) A cattle stampeding.
(d) Granddad yelling.

4. Why had Hud advised Granddad not to buy the cattle that was infected?
(a) Hud wanted to go into dairy rather than beef as a ranch.
(b) They were already in the red on operating expenses.
(c) Hud thought it was too expensive a price.
(d) It was from Mexico and they tended to be infected.

5. What has happened to a heifer on the ranch?
(a) It has been wounded by a wild cat.
(b) It ripped itself on barbed wire.
(c) It has disappeared.
(d) It has dropped dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who always wins?

2. What does Lonnie see when he looks in Halmea's window?

3. What does Halmea do with the family's dinner?

4. What do Lonnie, Jesse and Lonzo do in Thalia?

5. About what does the vet assure Granddad?

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