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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the storekeeper ignore?
(a) Lonnie and his friends do not live in that town.
(b) The boys are not from Oklahoma.
(c) Lonnie and his friends are underage.
(d) The boys treat the two women with them rather roughly.

2. What makes Lonnie leave the stockyard?
(a) His granddad gives him money to go buy something.
(b) A boy who is talking incessantly.
(c) Hud tells him to get out of there.
(d) His granny wants him to get some groceries.

3. Who is unconscious on the floor in Halmea's house?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Granddad.
(c) No one.
(d) Granny.

4. About what does the vet assure Granddad?
(a) Granddad is doing the moral thing.
(b) The disease does not have a long life span.
(c) He will be paid for the dead cattle.
(d) He will be able to raise cattle in three years.

5. Why does Hud resent Granddad about Hud going off to WWII?
(a) Granddad has the power to keep him out of the war and does not do so.
(b) Granddad mistreats Hud's mother while Hud is gone.
(c) Granddad calls the army and tells them Hud has not registered for the draft.
(d) Granddad tries to keep him from enlisting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to a heifer on the ranch?

2. Why does Hud stay in town the night before he is to take Granny to the city?

3. What does Jesse do as the others return to the house?

4. Of what does Lonnie dream?

5. What happens to Lonnie when he is getting a cow into the chute?

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