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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why won't Herriot let the man with the terrier show his dog?
(a) The dog is of the wrong breed.
(b) The dog is not registered.
(c) The dog has a temperature and Herriot suspects distemper.
(d) The dog is uncontrollable.

2. Where did James and Helen move to after their marriage?
(a) A small cottage on the edge of town.
(b) Onto Helen's family property.
(c) The third story of the Skeldale House.
(d) Into a flat next door to the clinic.

3. What does Harold Ingledew do that keeps his neighbors awake?
(a) Keeps his lambing pens near his neighbors house.
(b) Sing loudly when he's drunk.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Do his repair work at night on full moons.

4. What did the inspector find in an old shed?
(a) A patient, starving, yellow dog.
(b) The bones of many cats.
(c) All of the above.
(d) An old horse.

5. Why does Herriot suspect that Mr. Pickersgill is the cause of the problem with his cow's mastitis?
(a) Mr. Pickersgill milks the cow very roughly.
(b) Mr. Pickersgill constantly sprays chemicals in the barn.
(c) Mr. Pickersgill beds the stall so deeply it chaffes the cow.
(d) Mr. Pickersgill in always inventing new "vitamins" for the cow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What takes Herriot to the Alderson homestead in chapter seven?

2. What caused Herriot discomfort during chapter one?

3. What does Mr. Pickersgill call mastitis?

4. What was Herriot suspected of for his placement of the family pets winners?

5. What happens when Herriot injects the cow?

(see the answer key)

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