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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 do to the ranch?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Put it under quarantine.
(c) Temporarily clear it for moving healthy cattle.
(d) Tell Granddad that the cattle must be shot.

2. Who is Newt Garrett?
(a) The principal at Larry's school.
(b) A man Hud beat in poker.
(c) Granny's doctor.
(d) The local horse doctor.

3. 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.

4. What does Hud do every night after work?
(a) Helps care for his ailing grandmother.
(b) Stays in his room in the bunkhouse drinking.
(c) Learns to read.
(d) Goes into town to dance and to rodeos.

5. 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 runs out of gas and has to wait for the station to open.
(c) He is with a woman.
(d) He gets drunk and falls asleep.

6. Why does Lonnie keep working after he is hurt?
(a) He fears ridicule.
(b) There is a girl there he is trying to impress.
(c) There is so much to do.
(d) He doesn't realize how badly he is injured.

7. 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 Northern pasture.
(d) In the city.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is one of Lonnie's grandfather's most noticeable characteristics?
(a) Patience.
(b) Meanness.
(c) Frugality.
(d) Grumpiness.

14. What do all the men start doing the next morning?
(a) Fixing their riding gear.
(b) Branding.
(c) Rounding up cattle.
(d) Culling young bulls from the herd.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lonnie see in Thalia?

2. About what does the vet assure Granddad?

3. Who is Halmea?

4. Of what does the state vet think the heifer died?

5. What does Lonnie think young people want to do in the present?

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