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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Billy eventually get the baby colt out?
(a) He doesn't; Nellie isn't really pregnant.
(b) He reaches in and grabs it.
(c) He cuts open Nellie.
(d) He helps Nellie give birth.

2. How does Jody's grandfather arrive at the ranch?
(a) By foot.
(b) By bus.
(c) By cart and horse.
(d) By car.

3. What role does Carl play in the horse's birth?
(a) He is busy bossing everyone around.
(b) None; he isn't there.
(c) He is strangely quiet in the corner.
(d) He comforts Jody.

4. What month is it when Chapter 4 opens?
(a) August.
(b) December.
(c) July.
(d) March.

5. Why does Grandfather think Jody wants to listen to his stories so much?
(a) Because he is still a boy.
(b) Because he is just patronizing him.
(c) Because he is trying to get his dad mad again.
(d) Because he is trying to be respectful.

6. How does Carl react to finding Jody sneaking back into bed after checking on Nellie in the middle of the night?
(a) He is furious.
(b) He beats Jody.
(c) He laughs and stays up to talk with Jody.
(d) He is torn between pride and anger.

7. What does Jody do with his surprise-filled lunchbox when he returns home from school?
(a) He hides it in his room.
(b) He leaves it in the mailbox.
(c) He buries it under the porch.
(d) He leaves it with his mother.

8. What does Carl tell Jody not to blame on Billy?
(a) Their financial troubles.
(b) The death of his red pony.
(c) The horse sickness that is going through the town.
(d) His bad grades at school.

9. What does Billy Buck say about how Nellie is handling her pregnancy?
(a) That she has gone crazy.
(b) The she only thinks she is pregnant but really isn't.
(c) That she is comforted by Jody only.
(d) That she has "turned nice."

10. What is the colt born in?
(a) The placenta.
(b) A strange tumor of some kind.
(c) The colt is never born, actually.
(d) A twisted mess of pus.

11. What does Carl tell Jody about his work with Nellie?
(a) That he needs to focus on school more and horses less.
(b) That he has done a good job.
(c) That he needs to relax -- a lot.
(d) That he needs to not be so attached to the horse.

12. How long does Billy say it takes for a colt to be born?
(a) Two months.
(b) Nine months.
(c) One week.
(d) Nearly a year.

13. Why does Carl lose his temper and make Grandfather leave?
(a) Because Grandfather is filling Jody's head with stories.
(b) Because Grandfather is drunk all of the time.
(c) He doesn't.
(d) Because he has had it with Grandfather's crazy stories.

14. Whose ranch has Jody been told to take Nellie to?
(a) Billy Buck's.
(b) A stranger's.
(c) Jess Taylor's.
(d) No one's.

15. Who picks up Jody and puts him on a horse for safety?
(a) Carl.
(b) Billy Buck.
(c) Mrs. Tiflin.
(d) Jess Taylor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jody so worried about Nellie?

2. Where does everyone sit after dinner when Grandfather is first visiting?

3. What does Billy Buck do to show his respect for Grandfather?

4. What interrupts Grandfather's storytelling the first night he is visiting the Tiflins?

5. How is Jody picked up and put on a horse for safety?

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