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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a common breakfast in the Tiflin household?
(a) None -- they are very poor.
(b) Fresh turkey sandwiches.
(c) Eggs, bacon, and biscuits.
(d) Oatmeal.

2. What does Billy suggest Jody name the pony?
(a) Gabilan.
(b) Billy.
(c) Uni, since he looks like a unicorn.
(d) Red.

3. What is the "carrion" that Jody mentions the buzzards are helpful with?
(a) Dead flesh.
(b) Leftover crops.
(c) Poisonous buzzards.
(d) Seeds that need to be spread.

4. Where are pigs prepared for slaughter and slaughtered on the ranch?
(a) They aren't -- they are taken off property for this.
(b) In a special barn.
(c) Beneath the cypress.
(d) Right near the kitchen so they can be cleaned easily.

5. What time does Jody usually come home from school?
(a) Four o'clock.
(b) Noon (for lunch) and three o'clock.
(c) Six o'clock.
(d) After sunset, to be safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the cow-pumpkins look when the novel first opens?

2. How does the pony's coat and mane look when Jody first sees them?

3. For whom does Billy Buck work?

4. When the novel opens, what are Carl and Billy going to do?

5. Who is Billy Buck?

(see the answer key)

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