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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gave Herriot the idea for the surgery he performs in Chapter 8?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Siegfried.
(c) A medical student.
(d) Helen.

2. What was the name of Herriot's son who wanted special boots?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Timmy.
(c) Tommy.
(d) Johnny.

3. Who helped Siegfried and Herriot in the practice?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Tristan.
(c) Tyler.
(d) Theodore.

4. Why was travel limited when Bret Kealy's daughter's animal gave birth?
(a) Petroleum is limited.
(b) There is no travel at night during the war.
(c) The roads are all flooded.
(d) The snow is too high.

5. What did Herriot's student accidentally cut open during the surgery in Chapter 8?
(a) A kidney.
(b) A stomach.
(c) The uterus.
(d) The liver.

6. How did Herriot try to get to Bret Kealy's farm?
(a) He used skis.
(b) He drove his car.
(c) He walked on foot.
(d) He paddled a canoe.

7. Who saved Herriot from being sent to prison in Russia?
(a) A traveller.
(b) A soldier.
(c) The English teacher.
(d) The captain.

8. What did Herriot do when he saw that the farmer at the beginning of the book had not fulfilled his promise?
(a) Left the farm.
(b) Charged extra.
(c) Yelled.
(d) Laughed.

9. What was the first sickness that Herriot attended to while on the ship with the sheep?
(a) Split hoof.
(b) Stomach ulcer.
(c) Foot rot.
(d) Irritated eye.

10. What did a sailor ask Herriot to show him on his first trip?
(a) How to tie a proper knot.
(b) How to calm an angry animal.
(c) How to sleep with the sound of the animals.
(d) How to feed the animals.

11. What was the first port the ship to Russia landed at?
(a) Klameda.
(b) Klaipeda.
(c) Klaidoma.
(d) Kladopa.

12. Why did Herriot think the cow from Chapter 8 would die?
(a) Dirt and hay got into the incision.
(b) The stomach leaked acid.
(c) All of these.
(d) She had a lot of bleeding.

13. What was the name of Josh's dog?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Mars.
(c) Neptune.
(d) Venus.

14. What interfered with sewing the cow back up in Chapter 8?
(a) The calf wanted to nurse.
(b) The sun went down.
(c) The barn started leaking.
(d) The anesthesia wore off.

15. What did Herriot have to do after treating the cow that was thought to have a broken leg?
(a) Fix a gate.
(b) Corral calves.
(c) Castrate a bull.
(d) Inseminate the cow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Mongolian Russians feel when they were captured?

2. What did Josh say allowed him to read people's thoughts?

3. How many cattle died on an earlier voyage of the same ship the sheep were on?

4. Why does the cow in Chapter 8 need a surgery?

5. What were most veterinarians in Herriot's time specializing in?

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