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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 predict about the cattle?
(a) They will be saved by the new antibiotics.
(b) They don't have the disease.
(c) They can be sold to Mexicans if Granddad will let him.
(d) They will all have to die.

2. Why doesn't Granddad want to call the state vet?
(a) He will call the man when they find the heifer.
(b) He hates the government.
(c) He doesn't want the government to shut him down.
(d) He hasn't the money to pay the man.

3. 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 bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's grandmother.
(c) The bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's father.
(d) The snake bites Lonnie's father who later dies.

4. What does Lonnie think young people want to do in the present?
(a) Eat, sleep and do drugs.
(b) Stay on the family farms and feel connected.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Experience all the excitement they can find in life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hud reply when Granddad asks Hud's opinion of the situation?

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

3. Who returns as Lonnie is just getting up the next morning?

4. What does the state vet do to the ranch?

5. Who drives Lonnie's friends home?

(see the answer key)

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