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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 is the one exciting event of the year for the town of Thalia?
(a) The rodeo.
(b) Roundup.
(c) The State Fair.
(d) Branding time.

2. What does Lonnie say he wants to do?
(a) Buy groceries.
(b) Go right to bed because he's exhausted.
(c) Visit Granny.
(d) Ask the neighbor's about their cattle.

3. Who does Granddad have to ask for assistance?
(a) The United States government.
(b) The State of Texas.
(c) Neighbors.
(d) No one.

4. Why is Mr. Burris dismayed?
(a) Because Granny is not there for him to see her.
(b) Because Jesse is working as a ranch hand.
(c) Because they opened up the heifer's carcass.
(d) Because Lonnie and his friends made so much noise in the show.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Jesse complain?

2. What is Granddad unwilling to do?

3. What happens when Lonnie's father is shooting a snake that is about to bite Lonnie's grandmother?

4. How does Granddad feel about his cows?

5. What does the storekeeper ignore?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Newt say about the dead heifer?

2. Why doesn't Granddad want to drill for oil?

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

4. Who is Newt Garrett and why does he come to the ranch?

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

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

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

8. What is Granddad's response to Newt's suggestion?

9. What is a tender scene between Lonnie and Halmea when Lonnie goes in the house?

10. For what is Hud late the next morning and what is Granny's response?

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