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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hud do to anyone who seems weak?
(a) Patiently teaches them.
(b) Ignores them.
(c) Teases them.
(d) Knocks them around.

2. Why is Granny going into the city?
(a) To be with her daughter who is having a baby.
(b) To purchase new furniture.
(c) For cataract surgery.
(d) For kidney surgery.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the milk cows Granddad bought?

2. How does Larry feel about Hud?

3. For what does Lonnie get permission the night after the state vet comes back?

4. What happens when Lonnie's father is shooting a snake that is about to bite Lonnie's grandmother?

5. What does Halmea think Jesse needs?

(see the answer key)

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