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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 Hud bet in a card game?
(a) Some of the cattle that are now dead.
(b) Part of the ranch.
(c) Halmea.
(d) 1000 dollars.

2. What does Granddad tell Lonnie?
(a) That he is calling the sheriff and having Hud thrown off the ranch.
(b) That Hud is half owner of the ranch.
(c) That Granddad is the only owner of the ranch.
(d) That Granny inherits the ranch.

3. What does Lonnie think would have been better for Granddad?
(a) To have gotten out of ranching.
(b) To have gotten rid of Hud and his second wife.
(c) To have tried to defy the government.
(d) To have died with his first wife.

4. Where does Lonnie go?
(a) To his room to sleep.
(b) Thalia.
(c) To find Jesse.
(d) To his private camping spot.

5. How does Lonnie help Halmea?
(a) He cleans the wounds she cannot reach.
(b) He calls the sheriff.
(c) He drives her to town.
(d) He wakes his granddad.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Hud the night Halmea goes out?

2. Where does Granddad send Lonnie and Jesse?

3. Who has moved to Detroit?

4. What is Lonnie's task?

5. What does Hud say is for the best?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Lonnie discover when he investigates Hud's shouts?

4. What do the men do after breakfast?

5. What does Hermy tell Lonnie?

6. Describe the preacher's sermon about Granddad.

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

8. What does Jesse advise Lonnie and why does he do so?

9. What do Lonnie, Jesse and Halmea do and what makes Halmea laugh so hard?

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

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