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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) Learns to read.
(d) Stays in his room in the bunkhouse drinking.

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

5. What is Larry's grandmother's most outstanding characteristic?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Crabbiness with complaints.
(c) Spitefullness.
(d) Kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jesse do as the others return to the house?

2. What else has technology done?

3. Of what does Jesse complain?

4. How is Hud as a cowboy?

5. What has technology done to the rural way of life?

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