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

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

3. About what does Lonnie reminisce in the Prologue?
(a) His childhood on his family ranch in Texas.
(b) His father's recent death.
(c) His upcoming marriage.
(d) His sister's recent death.

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

5. What is Halmea doing with Granny in town?
(a) Making Lonnie what he wants for lunch.
(b) Things she isn't supposed to be doing.
(c) Granny's work along with her own.
(d) Calling her boyfriend on the phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to a heifer on the ranch?

2. What does Hud do every night after work?

3. What does Lonnie think young people want to do in the present?

4. What does Newt say about the heifer?

5. How does Larry feel about Hud?

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