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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Granddad say there will be some of in every life?
(a) Good things.
(b) Joys.
(c) Enough bad things.
(d) Things that are confusing.

3. What rumor does Hermy say he hears?
(a) That Lonnie is leaving Texas.
(b) That Hud killed Halmea.
(c) That Hud killed Jesse.
(d) That Hud wants to sell the ranch.

4. 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.

5. What wakes Lonnie in the night?
(a) Hud's shouts.
(b) Granny having a heart attack.
(c) A cattle stampeding.
(d) Granddad yelling.

6. Who is unconscious on the floor in Halmea's house?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Granny.
(c) Granddad.
(d) No one.

7. Why does Hud say Granddad would want to die?
(a) His ranch is useless.
(b) He is so badly injured.
(c) He would not be able to sell the ranch and live decently.
(d) He hates Granny and Hud.

8. What does Hud confess?
(a) That he found Halmea and beat her up again.
(b) That he swindled someone in a card game.
(c) That Granddad agreed to give Hud the ranch after Hud blackmailed him.
(d) That Hud stole all of the money Granddad had put aside for Lonnie's schooling.

9. With whom would Lonnie like to speak?
(a) The lawyer.
(b) Halmea.
(c) The preacher.
(d) No one.

10. What does Granddad tell Lonnie?
(a) That Granddad is the only owner of the ranch.
(b) That Hud is half owner of the ranch.
(c) That Granny inherits the ranch.
(d) That he is calling the sheriff and having Hud thrown off the ranch.

11. What does Lonnie notice about Halmea?
(a) She looks dead.
(b) She is singing.
(c) She is beat up.
(d) She is unresponsive to Lonnie's questions.

12. Who does Lonnie decide to visit?
(a) Lonzo.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Hermy.
(d) Halmea.

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

14. Who has Granddad named?
(a) Two steers and a bull.
(b) His dairy cows.
(c) His horses.
(d) His field chickens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Granddad fire Jesse and Lonzo?

2. Why does Granddad want to kill the cattle in the barnyard himself?

3. Why is Hud angry with Halmea?

4. What does Hud make Lonnie do?

5. What does Jesse say Lonnie should do?

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