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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 Mrs. Stearns tell Ike and Bobby to never do?
(a) Trust a doctor.
(b) Smoke cigarettes.
(c) Trust a preacher.
(d) Drink alcohol.

2. What does Victoria need on her lunch break?
(a) To talk to the boy who is the father of her baby.
(b) Time to get to the pay phone and call her boss.
(c) To see the principal.
(d) Something to eat that will not aggravate her nausea.

3. Who at first refuses to pay Ike and Bobby?
(a) Their grandfather.
(b) The neighbor across the street.
(c) The druggist.
(d) The barber.

4. What is the purpose of the chutes at the McPherons' place?
(a) To seperate the stallion from the mares.
(b) To separate the rams from the ewes.
(c) To vaccinate the cattle individually.
(d) To direct water to outlying fields.

5. Why is it difficult for Ike and Bobby to talk with their mother?
(a) She is so apathetic.
(b) She keeps crying.
(c) She keeps the door closed so they have to yell through it.
(d) She refuses to wear her hearing aids.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crowder tell Guthrie to do after the Beckmans leave?

2. For what do Harold and Raymond wait?

3. What happens to Bobby near the end of the work?

4. What does Victoria find when she gets home after work?

5. What does a panicked cow do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Victoria returns to the McPherons' house?

2. What does Guthrie tell Russell to do when Russell lies to Guthrie and what is the result of Guthrie's request?

3. What do Ike and Bobby do when they get home from school?

4. Why does Raymond get angry at a bar?

5. Where do Ike and Bobby ride their horse and why do they go there?

6. What do the boys tell Guthrie when he picks them up at the McPherons' and what do they ask him?

7. How does Guthrie end up at Judy's house?

8. How does Guthrie end up at Maggie's house and what do they do?

9. What does Victoria do for her lunch break, who does she encounter and what is the end result?

10. Describe the conversation Tom Guthrie and Lloyd Crowder have about Russell Beckman's grade in American History.

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