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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of Herriot's treatment of the animal?
(a) the animal is put down
(b) complete recovery
(c) the boar is castrated
(d) the cow delivers a calf

2. What happens because of this discovery?
(a) Herriot must repay the money
(b) Dr. Farnon and Tristan have a fight
(c) Miss Harbottle scolds Dr. Farnon
(d) Dr. Farnon and Herriot have a fight

3. What is the treatment that the doctors' recommend?
(a) Ticki Woo has to have surgery
(b) Ticki Woo is put on a liquid diet
(c) Ticki Woo is sewn up
(d) Ticki Woo is to come stay at Skedale House for 2 weeks

4. Who is Tristan?
(a) Herriot's cousin
(b) Herriot's brother
(c) Dr. Farnon's cousin
(d) Dr. Farnon's brother

5. Dr. Farnon has to do surgery on a cow that has what problem?
(a) a wire stuck in its second stomach
(b) it can't deliver its calf
(c) mastitis
(d) milk fever

6. Who is supposed to answer the phone each morning at the vet's office?
(a) Herriot
(b) Broadman
(c) Farnon
(d) Tristan

7. What has just happened in Tristan's life?
(a) he has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness
(b) he has just failed his veterinarian exams.
(c) he has just left his wife
(d) he has just gotten out of jail

8. What gift is Herriot given as payment for this act?
(a) a used cigar
(b) a bag of coins
(c) a bottle of wine
(d) dinner with the family

9. Dr. Farnon wants the practice to be more professional so he breaks out what new item?
(a) a new white coat
(b) a new car
(c) new surgery instruments
(d) a new operating table

10. Who is Nugent?
(a) Mrs. Pumphrey's pig
(b) Mrs. Pumphrey's child
(c) Mrs. Pumphrey's dog
(d) Mrs. Pumphrey's servant

11. New hens and piglets come to live at Skedale house, who is to care for them?
(a) Tristan
(b) Herriot
(c) Miss Harbottle
(d) Dr. Farnon

12. Who invites Herriot to a party?
(a) Dr. Farnon
(b) Ruth
(c) Tricki Woo
(d) Tristan

13. Chapter 16 is occupied primarily with the story of Tristan and what task?
(a) Feeding the pigs
(b) Cleaning the house
(c) Working the hunting mare
(d) Trying to get the hens to lay eggs

14. Herriot and Grier are both of what ancestry?
(a) they are both Scots
(b) they are both French
(c) they are both Irish
(d) they are both from Wales

15. When the book begins what is James Herriot called to do?
(a) help a bull which has gone down and cannot get up
(b) put down a horse
(c) operate on a dog who has be kicked by a horse
(d) deliver a calf

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness does Dan Cooper's cow have?

2. What is the outcome of the treatment for Ticki Woo?

3. Who is ill in this chapter?

4. What about Herriot is a surprise to Phin Calvert?

5. Tristan next is asked to care for a dog which has what problem?

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