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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is Granddad suspicious?
(a) About what Hud will do when his mother dies.
(b) Of Hud giving Larry girlie magazines.
(c) What has happened to the heifer.
(d) What Hud was doing in town.

2. Of what does Jesse complain?
(a) That his brother took most of the family's money.
(b) That he has the worst luck.
(c) That the girl he wanted to meet is with some other man.
(d) That his brother does not share his wages with their mother.

3. Why is Mr. Burris dismayed?
(a) Because they opened up the heifer's carcass.
(b) Because Jesse is working as a ranch hand.
(c) Because Lonnie and his friends made so much noise in the show.
(d) Because Granny is not there for him to see her.

4. What happens when Lonnie's father is shooting a snake that is about to bite Lonnie's grandmother?
(a) The bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's mother.
(b) The snake bites Lonnie's father who later dies.
(c) The bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's grandmother.
(d) The bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's father.

5. What is one of Lonnie's grandfather's most noticeable characteristics?
(a) Grumpiness.
(b) Patience.
(c) Frugality.
(d) Meanness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Lonnie when he is getting a cow into the chute?

2. What do the boys agree to do?

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

4. What does Hud predict about the cattle?

5. How does Larry feel about Hud?

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