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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do all the men start doing the next morning?
(a) Culling young bulls from the herd.
(b) Fixing their riding gear.
(c) Branding.
(d) Rounding up cattle.

2. What does the vet want to do to a few of the cattle and horses?
(a) Shoot them and then examine their brains.
(b) Nothing yet.
(c) Infect them with blood from the dead heifer.
(d) Take them to the state vet ranch for observation.

3. 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) Nothing.
(d) Stay on the family farms and feel connected.

4. How old is Lonnie at the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) 22.
(b) 33.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

5. What else has technology done?
(a) Made Lonnie's family lose their farm.
(b) Helped save Lonnie's father's life.
(c) Changed things forever.
(d) Helped save Lonnie's sister's life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Larry's grandmother's most outstanding characteristic?

2. What does Hud think should be done about the heifer?

3. What is Halmea doing with Granny in town?

4. What makes the strain less dangerous?

5. Who does Lonnie see in Thalia?

(see the answer key)

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