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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Granddad fire Jesse and Lonzo?
(a) They can get unemployment if they are fired instead of quitting.
(b) He has no work for them.
(c) They were no help slaughtering the cattle.
(d) He does not fire them.

2. What does Hud think should be done about the heifer?
(a) Bury it.
(b) Blame it on the neighbor's German shepherd.
(c) Take it to the processing plant.
(d) Find it.

3. Of what does Lonnie dream?
(a) Girls.
(b) Owning the ranch someday.
(c) He is too drunk to dream.
(d) Moving in the bunkhouse and becoming a real cowboy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Granny going into the city?

2. What wakes Lonnie in the night?

3. What does Hud predict about the cattle?

4. About what does Lonnie reminisce in the Prologue?

5. Who is Jesse?

(see the answer key)

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