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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Jesse and Halmea discuss?
(a) How to fool Hud.
(b) The best way to pluck a chicken.
(c) How to play a card game called cinch.
(d) The social differences between Blacks and Whites.

2. What does Lonnie notice on the porch.
(a) His granddad's lawyer.
(b) A package from the post office.
(c) A place where it is clear Granddad fell off.
(d) His dog is dead.

3. What do they do to the cattle?
(a) Nothing yet.
(b) Shoot them.
(c) Give them high doses of antibiotics.
(d) Vaccinate them.

4. To whom does Lonnie say goodbye?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Hud.
(c) Halmea.
(d) Sam.

5. What is Lonnie's task?
(a) Walking cattle into the trucks.
(b) Keeping cattle from escaping.
(c) Cutting out the healthy cows.
(d) Keeping tab of the cattle's ear tags.

6. For whom does Granddad mistake Lonnie?
(a) Granddad's brother.
(b) His deceased son.
(c) Hud.
(d) Jesse.

7. Of what is Lonnie unsure?
(a) Hud's motives for killing Granddad.
(b) What he will do now.
(c) Why Granddad was injured.
(d) If Hud loved Granddad.

8. How does Lonnie help Halmea?
(a) He cleans the wounds she cannot reach.
(b) He calls the sheriff.
(c) He drives her to town.
(d) He wakes his granddad.

9. What do Lonnie and Jesse discuss?
(a) If Granddad will be able to shoot his prize cattle.
(b) If Halmea is sorry she quit.
(c) If Granny cares about the ranch.
(d) If Hud has left for good.

10. What does Lonnie think would have been better for Granddad?
(a) To have tried to defy the government.
(b) To have gotten rid of Hud and his second wife.
(c) To have gotten out of ranching.
(d) To have died with his first wife.

11. What is Hud doing when Lonnie finds him at the rodeo?
(a) Fighting with another cowboy.
(b) Making out with another man's wife.
(c) Arguing with Granddad.
(d) Riding a bronco..

12. Who hauls the longhorns away?
(a) Lonnie and Jesse.
(b) Granddad.
(c) Hud.
(d) The government men.

13. Why does Granddad want to kill the cattle in the barnyard himself?
(a) He does not want to be the one to kill them.
(b) He raised them.
(c) He thinks they will understand if he does it.
(d) He has no real reason.

14. About what does Hermy ask Lonnie?
(a) If Halmea used to work for his family.
(b) Why Hud is living in Thalia.
(c) A deal Hud has worked.
(d) Where Lonnie wants to go after high school.

15. Where does Halmea go with some friends?
(a) Church.
(b) A local bar.
(c) A fish fry.
(d) To fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lonnie think has been shot?

2. What is Granddad's state?

3. What does the preacher say about Granddad?

4. Who has moved to Detroit?

5. What does Lonnie do after seeing off his friend?

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