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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Halmea doing with Granny in town?
(a) Granny's work along with her own.
(b) Calling her boyfriend on the phone.
(c) Things she isn't supposed to be doing.
(d) Making Lonnie what he wants for lunch.

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. What does Hud predict about the cattle?
(a) They don't have the disease.
(b) They will be saved by the new antibiotics.
(c) They can be sold to Mexicans if Granddad will let him.
(d) They will all have to die.

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

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

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

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

15. What big city does Lonnie remember?
(a) Houston.
(b) Oklahoma City.
(c) Fort Worth.
(d) Tulsa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the vet want to do to a few of the cattle and horses?

2. Why does Hud resent Granddad about Hud going off to WWII?

3. Where does Lonnie go when he leaves the ranch?

4. Who returns as Lonnie is just getting up the next morning?

5. Why is Granny going into the city?

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