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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ch. 1 Pages 27-54.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who objects to Billy stopping on the side of the road to help a group of people in Chapter 1?
(a) Troy.
(b) Johnny.
(c) John Grady.
(d) Mac.

2. Who diagnoses a horse as lame when a man brings it to Mac's farm in Chapter 1?
(a) Billy.
(b) Mac.
(c) John Grady.
(d) Troy.

3. What is the name of the fort Billy and Troy arrive at in Chapter 1?
(a) Fort Plion.
(b) Fort Davis.
(c) Fort Meyer.
(d) Fort Wetumpka.

4. Whose brother died in the war in the book?
(a) Billy's.
(b) John Grady's.
(c) Elton's.
(d) Troy's.

5. Who is the author of "Cities of the Plain"?
(a) Cormac McCarthy.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Earnest Hemingway.
(d) Robert Frost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war could Billy not fight in?

2. What age is the young woman John Grady becomes fascinated with on his first visit to the whorehouse?

3. What is the name of Billy's brother that died in the war?

4. What does John Grady do when he is offered work by a man on another farm in Chapter 1?

5. Who is thinking about leaving the ranch near the beginning of the book?

(see the answer key)

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