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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does Carl play in the horse's birth?
(a) None; he isn't there.
(b) He is busy bossing everyone around.
(c) He comforts Jody.
(d) He is strangely quiet in the corner.

2. What does Jody tell Grandfather has happened to Riley?
(a) He was smothered by a haystack.
(b) He was eaten by a coyote.
(c) He was suspended from school for using bad words.
(d) He shed his skin for the first time.

3. What is the "carrion" that Jody mentions the buzzards are helpful with?
(a) Dead flesh.
(b) Leftover crops.
(c) Poisonous buzzards.
(d) Seeds that need to be spread.

4. Why does Billy tell Jody to go outside when Nellie is supposedly in labor?
(a) So he can charge people admission at the door.
(b) So he can keep Carl away.
(c) So he doesn't see Billy kill Nellie.
(d) So he can stand guard.

5. Where are pigs prepared for slaughter and slaughtered on the ranch?
(a) Right near the kitchen so they can be cleaned easily.
(b) In a special barn.
(c) They aren't -- they are taken off property for this.
(d) Beneath the cypress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl tell Grandfather in front of everyone about what Grandfather has overheard?

2. What interrupts Grandfather's storytelling the first night he is visiting the Tiflins?

3. What does Carl tell Jody about his work with Nellie?

4. Who is Doubletree Mutt?

5. Why does Grandfather accept Jody's offer for a drink when they are sitting on the porch discussing "westering"?

(see the answer key)

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