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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Larry's grandmother's most outstanding characteristic?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Crabbiness with complaints.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Spitefullness.

2. What does Hud predict about the cattle?
(a) They will be saved by the new antibiotics.
(b) They can be sold to Mexicans if Granddad will let him.
(c) They will all have to die.
(d) They don't have the disease.

3. What has technology done to the rural way of life?
(a) Made it easier.
(b) Pushed it aside.
(c) Made it less appealing.
(d) Made it harder.

4. How does Granddad respond to Lonzo's suggestion?
(a) He wants to wait to see the outcome.
(b) He calls in another vet.
(c) He plans to start moving the cattle to the hills the next morning.
(d) He tells everyone they don't have time to rest.

5. Of what does Jesse complain?
(a) That he has the worst luck.
(b) That his brother took most of the family's money.
(c) That his brother does not share his wages with their mother.
(d) That the girl he wanted to meet is with some other man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the boys agree to do?

3. What happens to the milk cows Granddad bought?

4. What was life like before the arrival of mass communication?

5. What is one of Lonnie's grandfather's most noticeable characteristics?

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