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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Halmea think Jesse needs?
(a) A job on a more modern ranch.
(b) A wife and children.
(c) To move to California, the land of opportunity.
(d) To work as a mechanic at the new service station.

3. What does Hud do every night after work?
(a) Goes into town to dance and to rodeos.
(b) Helps care for his ailing grandmother.
(c) Stays in his room in the bunkhouse drinking.
(d) Learns to read.

4. How do the boys amuse themselves back in Thalia?
(a) Rating girls.
(b) Spitting contests.
(c) Peeing contests.
(d) Bragging.

5. What does Jesse do as the others return to the house?
(a) Go to search for the heifer.
(b) Stay in the pasture.
(c) Go into town to call the state vet.
(d) Go to visit his girlfriend who is the cook at the nearest neighbor's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hud stay in town the night before he is to take Granny to the city?

2. Who is Jesse?

3. What is Halmea doing with Granny in town?

4. What does Lonzo suggest?

5. Who drives Lonnie's friends home?

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