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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What if the strain of disease only infects cows?
(a) Then it is the most dangerous type.
(b) Then it can be contained very rapidly.
(c) It can either be dangerous or harmless.
(d) Then all the cows can be innoculated and it will die out.

2. 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.

3. What does the storekeeper ignore?
(a) The boys are not from Oklahoma.
(b) Lonnie and his friends are underage.
(c) Lonnie and his friends do not live in that town.
(d) The boys treat the two women with them rather roughly.

4. Who is afraid of Hud when he is drinking?
(a) Granny.
(b) No one.
(c) Lonnie.
(d) Granddad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a visiting cousin insist?

2. Where does Lonnie go when he leaves the ranch?

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

4. What does Lonnie find at the ranch after taking Halmea to town?

5. What is the one exciting event of the year for the town of Thalia?

(see the answer key)

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