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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Granddad respond to Lonzo's suggestion?
(a) He wants to wait to see the outcome.
(b) He plans to start moving the cattle to the hills the next morning.
(c) He calls in another vet.
(d) He tells everyone they don't have time to rest.

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

4. What was life like before the arrival of mass communication?
(a) Families were closer.
(b) More dangerous.
(c) More interesting.
(d) Slower.

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

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

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

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

9. Of what is Granddad suspicious?
(a) Of Hud giving Larry girlie magazines.
(b) What has happened to the heifer.
(c) About what Hud will do when his mother dies.
(d) What Hud was doing in town.

10. What is Granddad unwilling to do?
(a) He does not say.
(b) Let the government deal with the cattle.
(c) Shoot his cattle.
(d) Keep his cattle.

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

12. Who drives Lonnie's friends home?
(a) A Texas Ranger.
(b) Lonnie.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) The cousin.

13. What does Hud say about Halmea when Lonnie asks?
(a) That Halmea probably is having her women's curses.
(b) That Hud had grabbed Halmea's breast.
(c) That Hud asked Halmea for breakfast after the kitchen was cleaned.
(d) Hud does not know why Halmea is crying.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives on the family ranch with Lonnie?

2. Who is Newt Garrett?

3. Why does the storekeeper ignore the situation with Lonnie and his friends?

4. Who is Hud?

5. Who does Lonnie see in Thalia?

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