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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hud do every night after work?
(a) Helps care for his ailing grandmother.
(b) Learns to read.
(c) Stays in his room in the bunkhouse drinking.
(d) Goes into town to dance and to rodeos.

2. What did Lonzo do all night?
(a) Guard the cow from buzzards.
(b) Work on the book he is writing.
(c) Keep Hud from doing something stupid.
(d) Sleep in the hayloft with a woman.

3. What does Granddad call money from oil?
(a) Easy.
(b) Meaningless.
(c) Tainted.
(d) Private money from public interest.

4. What does Lonnie think would have been better for Granddad?
(a) To have died with his first wife.
(b) To have gotten out of ranching.
(c) To have gotten rid of Hud and his second wife.
(d) To have tried to defy the government.

5. What does Hud reply when Granddad asks Hud's opinion of the situation?
(a) They should go for oil on the land.
(b) Granddad is 15 years too late in asking.
(c) They should wait and see what the vet says.
(d) He thinks they should try to sell the cattle across the border.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the boys agree to do?

2. Of what does Jesse complain?

3. What does Granddad say there will be some of in every life?

4. What makes Lonnie leave the stockyard?

5. What reminds Granddad that he didn't used to have to worry about the government?

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