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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the storekeeper ignore the situation with Lonnie and his friends?
(a) The two women are obviously prostitutes.
(b) The Texans generally have more money.
(c) There are no cops around.
(d) They are basically good boys.

2. How do the boys amuse themselves back in Thalia?
(a) Bragging.
(b) Spitting contests.
(c) Peeing contests.
(d) Rating girls.

3. Why is Granny going into the city?
(a) To be with her daughter who is having a baby.
(b) For cataract surgery.
(c) To purchase new furniture.
(d) For kidney surgery.

4. Of what does Jesse complain?
(a) That his brother does not share his wages with their mother.
(b) That he has the worst luck.
(c) That the girl he wanted to meet is with some other man.
(d) That his brother took most of the family's money.

5. Why is Mr. Burris dismayed?
(a) Because Granny is not there for him to see her.
(b) Because Lonnie and his friends made so much noise in the show.
(c) Because they opened up the heifer's carcass.
(d) Because Jesse is working as a ranch hand.

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

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

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

9. 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 father.
(c) The bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's grandmother.
(d) The bullet ricochets and kills Lonnie's mother.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Lonnie when he is getting a cow into the chute?

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

3. What does Jesse do as the others return to the house?

4. About what does the vet assure Granddad?

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

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