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

2. Who always wins?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Wins are split pretty evenly.
(c) Halmea.
(d) Lonnie.

3. Who is laid out with clothes spread over him?
(a) Hud.
(b) No one.
(c) Granddad.
(d) Jesse.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lonnie hide the next day?

2. How does Lonnie help Halmea?

3. What does Lonnie decide to do after talking with Hud?

4. What is Granddad wearing?

5. Who burns the cattle carcasses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lonnie want to do and what is Halmea's response?

2. What does Lonnie do in response to what Hud tells him?

3. What does Hud say about Granddad?

4. Where does Granddad send Lonnie and Jesse, and what do they discuss?

5. What does Granddad have in the barnyard and what is the significance?

6. What does Lonnie hear and what does he think?

7. What does Lonnie decide about his life in the immediate future?

8. Who does Hud send for help and what happens as Lonnie is by the roadside?

9. For whom does Lonnie go looking and why?

10. What does Lonnie do with his rifle and why, and how does Hud react?

(see the answer keys)

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