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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 does Lonnie do with his buddies?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Goes to a dance.
(c) Goes to the state line to get beer.
(d) Searches for clues in the hills of the source of the diseaese.

2. What makes Lonnie leave the stockyard?
(a) His granddad gives him money to go buy something.
(b) His granny wants him to get some groceries.
(c) A boy who is talking incessantly.
(d) Hud tells him to get out of there.

3. How old is Lonnie at the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) 17.
(b) 33.
(c) 15.
(d) 22.

4. What does Mr. Burris suggest as an alternative means for money?
(a) Corn.
(b) Soybeans.
(c) Oil.
(d) Chickens.

5. How does Lonnie deal with his restlessness?
(a) Shooting frogs.
(b) Riding his horse into the wilderness.
(c) Doing drugs.
(d) Drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halmea think Jesse needs?

2. Why does Hud stay in town the night before he is to take Granny to the city?

3. What is Halmea doing in the kitchen when Lonnie carries in groceries?

4. Who is Hud?

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

(see the answer key)

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