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

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

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

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

5. What does the state vet take with him for examination?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The heifer's tongue.
(c) The heifer's brain.
(d) Blood specimens from several other of the cattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mr. Burris dismayed?

2. What does Newt say about the heifer?

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

4. What else has technology done?

5. What does Hud do every night after work?

(see the answer key)

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