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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Larry feel about Hud?
(a) Hates him.
(b) Envies him but avoids him.
(c) Adores him.
(d) Looks up to him and hopes to be like him.

2. Why does the storekeeper ignore the situation with Lonnie and his friends?
(a) The Texans generally have more money.
(b) There are no cops around.
(c) They are basically good boys.
(d) The two women are obviously prostitutes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lonnie say he wants to do?

2. What makes Lonnie leave the stockyard?

3. What does Hud predict about the cattle?

4. About what does Lonnie reminisce in the Prologue?

5. What do all the men start doing the next morning?

(see the answer key)

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