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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Burris suggest as an alternative means for money?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Corn.
(c) Soybeans.
(d) Oil.

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

3. What makes Lonnie want to travel?
(a) The bad home situation.
(b) Reading travel magazines.
(c) Hearing about WWII in Europe from Hud.
(d) Listening to Jesse's stories.

4. What does the state vet do to the ranch?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Tell Granddad that the cattle must be shot.
(c) Put it under quarantine.
(d) Temporarily clear it for moving healthy cattle.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Lonnie at the opening of Chapter 1?

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

4. What is Granddad's response to Mr. Burris?

5. What does Halmea do that is meaningful to Lonnie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the vet want to do to determine the strain of the disease and why does he want to do so?

2. How does Mr. Burris reassure Granddad?

3. Where does Lonnie want to go and why does he say he wants to do so?

4. What is Hud's response on the way back from the stockyards when Granddad asks his opinion about the cattle?

5. What happens when the state vet arrives the next day at the ranch?

6. What does Halmea think Jesse needs and what is his response?

7. Who is Jesse and when does he arrive at the ranch?

8. What do the men on the ranch do the next day?

9. What happens that makes Halmea cry and what is her response to Lonnie?

10. How does Granddad come to marry his second wife?

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