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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How long do the men work with the cattle?
(a) Till sunset.
(b) Till mid afternoon.
(c) Several days.
(d) Two or three hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives on the family ranch with Lonnie?

2. What does Hud do every night after work?

3. What do the boys agree to do?

4. Who is Hud?

5. How does Larry feel about Hud?

(see the answer key)

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