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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who returns as Lonnie is just getting up the next morning?
(a) The vet.
(b) Hud's cousin.
(c) Hud and his mother.
(d) The sheriff.

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

3. What does Lonnie say he wants to do?
(a) Visit Granny.
(b) Buy groceries.
(c) Ask the neighbor's about their cattle.
(d) Go right to bed because he's exhausted.

4. What is Halmea doing in the kitchen when Lonnie carries in groceries?
(a) Making biscuits.
(b) Sharpening a butcher's knife.
(c) Sitting at the table drinking coffee.
(d) Crying and holding her breast.

5. What does Halmea think Jesse needs?
(a) To work as a mechanic at the new service station.
(b) A job on a more modern ranch.
(c) A wife and children.
(d) To move to California, the land of opportunity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Newt Garrett?

2. What does Hud say about Halmea when Lonnie asks?

3. What does Halmea say she wants when Lonnie asks her?

4. How do the boys amuse themselves back in Thalia?

5. What if the strain of disease only infects cows?

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