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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does The Red Pony take place?
(a) Salinas, California.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) A small town in New Mexico.
(d) We never learn.

2. How does Jody kill the animal that he kills for the first time when Chapter 2 opens?
(a) With a slingshot.
(b) He makes his dog go attack it.
(c) With his hands.
(d) With his gun.

3. What does Jody have to do when he comes home from school every day?
(a) His afternoon chores.
(b) Milk the cows.
(c) His homework.
(d) He just gets to play like a normal kid.

4. What does Carl think Gitano has saved him from?
(a) Dealing with Easter when he dies.
(b) Bad luck.
(c) The plague.
(d) A week's worth of unwanted houseguests.

5. Why does Gitano eventually make Jody leave his lodgings for the night?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) Because he finds Jody incredibly annoying.
(c) Because he wants to sleep.
(d) Because he is trying to steal things.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jody's character first described?

2. How high is the corn when the novel first opens?

3. What kind of horse was Easter when he was younger?

4. As Jody's pony gets sicker, what life-saving procedure must Billy do to keep it alive?

5. When the novel opens, what are Carl and Billy going to do?

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