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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 Lonnie and Jesse discuss?
(a) If Granddad will be able to shoot his prize cattle.
(b) If Halmea is sorry she quit.
(c) If Granny cares about the ranch.
(d) If Hud has left for good.

2. Why does Granddad wake up Lonnie very early?
(a) To go and see if Halmea will return.
(b) To go into town and hire some help.
(c) They have a lot to do.
(d) To go to Dallas.

3. Where does Lonnie hide the next day?
(a) In Thalia.
(b) No where.
(c) Out on the range.
(d) In the hayloft.

4. What does Lonnie hear as he is trying to flag down someone?
(a) A siren.
(b) His granddad yelling at Hud.
(c) A gunshot.
(d) Hud crying.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hud make Lonnie do?

2. What wakes Lonnie in the night?

3. Where does Hermy go?

4. What happens to Hermy?

5. Who does Lonnie find drunk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lonnie do after saying goodbye to Jesse and who comes up from behind Lonnie in another vehicle?

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

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

4. How does Hud act the day after Granddad's death?

5. What does Lonnie think when he hears a shot and what does he subsequently find?

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

7. For whom does Lonnie go looking and why?

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

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

10. What does Lonnie do and how does he describe the day?

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