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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Lonnie, Jesse and Lonzo do in Thalia?
(a) Have ice cream at the soda fountain.
(b) Try to pick up girls.
(c) Register for school.
(d) Go to the movies.

2. What does Lonnie say he wants to do?
(a) Ask the neighbor's about their cattle.
(b) Go right to bed because he's exhausted.
(c) Visit Granny.
(d) Buy groceries.

3. What has technology done to the rural way of life?
(a) Made it easier.
(b) Made it less appealing.
(c) Pushed it aside.
(d) Made it harder.

4. Of what does the state vet think the heifer died?
(a) Rabies.
(b) He has no idea.
(c) Unguent fever.
(d) Hoof-and-mouth disease.

5. What does Lonnie think young people want to do in the present?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Experience all the excitement they can find in life.
(c) Eat, sleep and do drugs.
(d) Stay on the family farms and feel connected.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a visiting cousin insist?

2. Of what does Jesse complain?

3. Why doesn't Granddad want to call the state vet?

4. How do the boys amuse themselves back in Thalia?

5. What did Lonzo do all night?

(see the answer key)

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