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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do all the men start doing the next morning?
(a) Branding.
(b) Fixing their riding gear.
(c) Rounding up cattle.
(d) Culling young bulls from the herd.

2. What does Granddad call money from oil?
(a) Easy.
(b) Private money from public interest.
(c) Meaningless.
(d) Tainted.

3. How does Granddad respond to Lonzo's suggestion?
(a) He calls in another vet.
(b) He tells everyone they don't have time to rest.
(c) He wants to wait to see the outcome.
(d) He plans to start moving the cattle to the hills the next morning.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Burris bring with him to the ranch?

2. What do Lonnie, Jesse and Lonzo do in Thalia?

3. Who is Newt Garrett?

4. What does Hud think should be done about the heifer?

5. Who does the state vet bring on his return to the ranch?

(see the answer key)

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