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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Mr. Burris dismayed?
(a) Because Lonnie and his friends made so much noise in the show.
(b) Because Jesse is working as a ranch hand.
(c) Because they opened up the heifer's carcass.
(d) Because Granny is not there for him to see her.

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

4. What do the boys agree to do?
(a) Drive to Oklahoma City to see for themselves.
(b) Drive to Cement to see for themselves.
(c) Fight for their town's honor.
(d) Have a shooting contest to decide who is right.

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

6. What does Halmea say she wants when Lonnie asks her?
(a) A new job.
(b) Lots of money.
(c) A gun.
(d) Protection.

7. What does Lonnie do in the middle of the night?
(a) Goes to Halmea's little house.
(b) Goes in to threaten Hud.
(c) Tries to write more of his book.
(d) Prays for a way to leave the ranch.

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

9. What has happened to a heifer on the ranch?
(a) It ripped itself on barbed wire.
(b) It has disappeared.
(c) It has dropped dead.
(d) It has been wounded by a wild cat.

10. What big city does Lonnie remember?
(a) Fort Worth.
(b) Oklahoma City.
(c) Houston.
(d) Tulsa.

11. What does Lonzo suggest?
(a) Resting the next day until the vet returns.
(b) Getting a second opinion.
(c) Sneaking the cattle off.
(d) Fighting the government.

12. Why had Hud advised Granddad not to buy the cattle that was infected?
(a) Hud wanted to go into dairy rather than beef as a ranch.
(b) They were already in the red on operating expenses.
(c) It was from Mexico and they tended to be infected.
(d) Hud thought it was too expensive a price.

13. Why does Hud stay in town the night before he is to take Granny to the city?
(a) He is avoiding a storm.
(b) He gets drunk and falls asleep.
(c) He is with a woman.
(d) He runs out of gas and has to wait for the station to open.

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

15. Who is looking into other options for Granddad?
(a) Hud.
(b) Granddad's lawyer.
(c) A Judge.
(d) Grandad's accountant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives on the family ranch with Lonnie?

2. What was life like before the arrival of mass communication?

3. What is Halmea doing with Granny in town?

4. What does Newt say about the heifer?

5. What does Halmea do that is meaningful to Lonnie?

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