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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lonnie feel after hearing Hud and Granddad's conversation?
(a) Confused and depressed.
(b) Bitter.
(c) Angry.
(d) Elated.

2. What else has technology done?
(a) Helped save Lonnie's sister's life.
(b) Changed things forever.
(c) Helped save Lonnie's father's life.
(d) Made Lonnie's family lose their farm.

3. What is the one exciting event of the year for the town of Thalia?
(a) The State Fair.
(b) The rodeo.
(c) Branding time.
(d) Roundup.

4. About what does Lonnie reminisce in the Prologue?
(a) His father's recent death.
(b) His upcoming marriage.
(c) His childhood on his family ranch in Texas.
(d) His sister's recent death.

5. How long do the men work with the cattle?
(a) Two or three hours.
(b) Several days.
(c) Till mid afternoon.
(d) Till sunset.

6. What has technology done to the rural way of life?
(a) Made it harder.
(b) Made it less appealing.
(c) Made it easier.
(d) Pushed it aside.

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

8. What was life like before the arrival of mass communication?
(a) Slower.
(b) Families were closer.
(c) More dangerous.
(d) More interesting.

9. Who lives on the family ranch with Lonnie?
(a) His parents and two siblings.
(b) His wife and child.
(c) His brother.
(d) His grandparents and uncle.

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

11. How does Granddad feel about his cows?
(a) They are his livelihood.
(b) The cattle actually belong to a neighbor.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They are what he does.

12. What do Lonnie, Jesse and Lonzo do in Thalia?
(a) Register for school.
(b) Have ice cream at the soda fountain.
(c) Try to pick up girls.
(d) Go to the movies.

13. Who does Granddad have to ask for assistance?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) No one.
(c) The United States government.
(d) The State of Texas.

14. How does Larry feel about Hud?
(a) Adores him.
(b) Hates him.
(c) Looks up to him and hopes to be like him.
(d) Envies him but avoids him.

15. What is most likely wrong with Granddad's cattle?
(a) The worse strain of hoof-and-mouth disease.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Mad cow disease.
(d) Rabies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the state vet take with him for examination?

2. Why is Mr. Burris dismayed?

3. Who is Halmea?

4. How does Lonnie deal with his restlessness?

5. Who counsels Lonnie to not waste time thinking about "what if?"

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