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

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

4. What has happened to a heifer on the ranch?
(a) It has been wounded by a wild cat.
(b) It ripped itself on barbed wire.
(c) It has dropped dead.
(d) It has disappeared.

5. What does Halmea say she wants when Lonnie asks her?
(a) Protection.
(b) A new job.
(c) A gun.
(d) Lots of money.

6. What does Lonnie do with his buddies?
(a) Goes to the state line to get beer.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Searches for clues in the hills of the source of the diseaese.
(d) Goes to a dance.

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

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

9. What does Halmea think Jesse needs?
(a) A job on a more modern ranch.
(b) To move to California, the land of opportunity.
(c) A wife and children.
(d) To work as a mechanic at the new service station.

10. Who is looking into other options for Granddad?
(a) Grandad's accountant.
(b) A Judge.
(c) Hud.
(d) Granddad's lawyer.

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

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

13. What is Larry's grandmother's most outstanding characteristic?
(a) Crabbiness with complaints.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Spitefullness.

14. Who is Jesse?
(a) Larry's half brother.
(b) The new hired hand.
(c) Halmea's grandson.
(d) Hud's school buddy.

15. 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.