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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lonnie feel after hearing Hud and Granddad's conversation?
(a) Angry.
(b) Confused and depressed.
(c) Elated.
(d) Bitter.

2. Who does the state vet bring on his return to the ranch?
(a) No one.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) A bovine epidemiologist.
(d) Several technicians.

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

4. What does Jesse do as the others return to the house?
(a) Stay in the pasture.
(b) Go to search for the heifer.
(c) Go to visit his girlfriend who is the cook at the nearest neighbor's.
(d) Go into town to call the state vet.

5. What does Halmea do that is meaningful to Lonnie?
(a) She reads to him while he is sick.
(b) She sponges his face.
(c) She brings him lemonade.
(d) She kisses him on the forehead.

6. What does Lonnie do in the middle of the night?
(a) Tries to write more of his book.
(b) Prays for a way to leave the ranch.
(c) Goes to Halmea's little house.
(d) Goes in to threaten Hud.

7. What does Mr. Burris say needs to be done?
(a) Take the cattle back to Mexico.
(b) Vaccinate all cattle that do not yet show signs of the disease.
(c) Take the cattle to a meat-packing plant before they are sick.
(d) Kill Granddad's cattle.

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

9. Of what does Lonnie dream?
(a) Owning the ranch someday.
(b) Girls.
(c) He is too drunk to dream.
(d) Moving in the bunkhouse and becoming a real cowboy.

10. What is Halmea doing in the kitchen when Lonnie carries in groceries?
(a) Sharpening a butcher's knife.
(b) Sitting at the table drinking coffee.
(c) Crying and holding her breast.
(d) Making biscuits.

11. What is Halmea doing with Granny in town?
(a) Calling her boyfriend on the phone.
(b) Granny's work along with her own.
(c) Making Lonnie what he wants for lunch.
(d) Things she isn't supposed to be doing.

12. What does Lonnie do with his buddies?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Goes to the state line to get beer.
(c) Searches for clues in the hills of the source of the diseaese.
(d) Goes to a dance.

13. What does the state vet take with him for examination?
(a) Blood specimens from several other of the cattle.
(b) The heifer's brain.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The heifer's tongue.

14. 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.

15. What does Halmea say she wants when Lonnie asks her?
(a) Lots of money.
(b) A gun.
(c) Protection.
(d) A new job.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lonzo suggest?

3. What do Lonnie, Jesse and Lonzo do in Thalia?

4. Who is Jesse?

5. What if the strain of disease only infects cows?

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