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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a visiting cousin insist?
(a) That Thalia is no worse than Oklahoma City.
(b) That Oklahoma City is better than Thalia.
(c) That he and his cousin have to get home.
(d) That Cement, Oklahoma is even better than Thalia.

2. What does the state vet take with him for examination?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Blood specimens from several other of the cattle.
(c) The heifer's brain.
(d) The heifer's tongue.

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

4. Why doesn't Granddad want to call the state vet?
(a) He will call the man when they find the heifer.
(b) He doesn't want the government to shut him down.
(c) He hasn't the money to pay the man.
(d) He hates the government.

5. Who is Mr. Burris?
(a) The state vet.
(b) An old friend of Granddad.
(c) The movie theater manager in Thalia.
(d) Jesse's uncle.

6. What is Halmea doing in the kitchen when Lonnie carries in groceries?
(a) Sitting at the table drinking coffee.
(b) Sharpening a butcher's knife.
(c) Making biscuits.
(d) Crying and holding her breast.

7. What does Lonnie say he wants to do?
(a) Visit Granny.
(b) Go right to bed because he's exhausted.
(c) Buy groceries.
(d) Ask the neighbor's about their cattle.

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halmea say she wants when Lonnie asks her?

2. What happens when Lonnie's father is shooting a snake that is about to bite Lonnie's grandmother?

3. What makes the strain less dangerous?

4. What is one of Lonnie's grandfather's most noticeable characteristics?

5. What makes Lonnie want to travel?

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