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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. About what does Lonnie reminisce in the Prologue?
(a) His childhood on his family ranch in Texas.
(b) His father's recent death.
(c) His upcoming marriage.
(d) His sister's recent death.

2. Why does Hud stay in town the night before he is to take Granny to the city?
(a) He gets drunk and falls asleep.
(b) He runs out of gas and has to wait for the station to open.
(c) He is avoiding a storm.
(d) He is with a woman.

3. Where does Lonnie go when he leaves the ranch?
(a) To a pool hall in Thalia.
(b) To visit the neighbor's teenage daughter.
(c) To a brothel in the city.
(d) To try to find the source of the cattle's illness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lonzo do all night?

2. What does Lonzo suggest?

3. What is one of Lonnie's grandfather's most noticeable characteristics?

4. Why is Mr. Burris dismayed?

5. What makes Lonnie leave the stockyard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Lonnie feel after hearing the conversation between Hud and Granddad and what does he do?

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

6. What happens to Lonnie while helping test the cattle and what does he do?

7. What is the most exciting event of the year for Thalia and how does Lonnie feel about it?

8. What does Lonnie think about in the Prologue?

9. Where does Lonnie go that evening with Jesse and Lonzo and whom does he see?

10. Describe Lonnie's family members who live at the ranch.

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