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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens when Lonnie's father is shooting a snake that is about to bite Lonnie's grandmother?
(a) The snake bites Lonnie's father who later dies.
(b) The bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's mother.
(c) The bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's father.
(d) The bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's grandmother.

3. What if the strain of disease only infects cows?
(a) Then all the cows can be innoculated and it will die out.
(b) Then it can be contained very rapidly.
(c) It can either be dangerous or harmless.
(d) Then it is the most dangerous type.

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

5. What does Mr. Burris bring with him to the ranch?
(a) News.
(b) A questionnaire for them to fill out.
(c) An order from the State Agriculture Department.
(d) A vaccine for the cattle.

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

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

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

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

10. Who counsels Lonnie to not waste time thinking about "what if?"
(a) Halmea.
(b) Mr. Burris.
(c) Hud.
(d) Granddad.

11. How is Hud as a cowboy?
(a) He is a bit of a fumbler.
(b) He is good at what he does.
(c) He's a great roper but not very good with horses.
(d) He is not a cowboy.

12. Who does Lonnie see in Thalia?
(a) A poster about the upcoming state fair.
(b) A girl with whom he wants to go out.
(c) A two-headed cow.
(d) His buddies.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Burris say needs to be done?

2. What is Larry's grandmother's most outstanding characteristic?

3. What has happened to a heifer on the ranch?

4. Where does Lonnie end up the morning after hearing Hud and Granddad's conversation?

5. How do the boys amuse themselves back in Thalia?

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