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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Lonnie end up the morning after hearing Hud and Granddad's conversation?
(a) Drunk in the hayloft.
(b) At Halmea's window.
(c) In the city.
(d) In the Northern pasture.

3. What does Halmea think Jesse needs?
(a) To move to California, the land of opportunity.
(b) A job on a more modern ranch.
(c) To work as a mechanic at the new service station.
(d) A wife and children.

4. What happens to Lonnie when he is getting a cow into the chute?
(a) He breaks his leg.
(b) He slips and twists an ankle.
(c) He breaks his wrist.
(d) He gets kicked into the fence and gets a concussion.

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

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

7. What does Mr. Burris suggest as an alternative means for money?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Soybeans.
(c) Oil.
(d) Corn.

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

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

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

11. Who returns as Lonnie is just getting up the next morning?
(a) The vet.
(b) Hud and his mother.
(c) Hud's cousin.
(d) The sheriff.

12. What does Hud do to anyone who seems weak?
(a) Teases them.
(b) Patiently teaches them.
(c) Ignores them.
(d) Knocks them around.

13. What does Newt say about the heifer?
(a) The heifer could be anywhere by now.
(b) He cannot see any obvious signs of disease.
(c) The heifer is too young to have died without cause.
(d) He can see that it has been poisoned.

14. Who is Jesse?
(a) Halmea's grandson.
(b) Larry's half brother.
(c) Hud's school buddy.
(d) The new hired hand.

15. About what does the vet assure Granddad?
(a) He will be paid for the dead cattle.
(b) He will be able to raise cattle in three years.
(c) Granddad is doing the moral thing.
(d) The disease does not have a long life span.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Granddad want to call the state vet?

2. Of what is Granddad suspicious?

3. Of what does Lonnie dream?

4. What does Lonzo suggest?

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

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