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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was life like before the arrival of mass communication?
(a) Slower.
(b) More interesting.
(c) Families were closer.
(d) More dangerous.

4. Why is Granny going into the city?
(a) For kidney surgery.
(b) To purchase new furniture.
(c) For cataract surgery.
(d) To be with her daughter who is having a baby.

5. What else has technology done?
(a) Helped save Lonnie's father's life.
(b) Helped save Lonnie's sister's life.
(c) Changed things forever.
(d) Made Lonnie's family lose their farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Jesse complain?

2. What if the strain of disease only infects cows?

3. Who is Mr. Burris?

4. Where does Lonnie go when he leaves the ranch?

5. How long do the men work with the cattle?

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