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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 222 - 296) .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jolly call Lurie?
(a) Misfit.
(b) Misafir.
(c) John.
(d) James.

2. What is the name of Lurie's camel?
(a) Notty.
(b) Burke.
(c) Barley.
(d) Wizard.

3. Why does Nora claim not to be worried about the delay in her husband getting home?
(a) She feels in her bones he is alive.
(b) She talked to a friend who saw him in town recently.
(c) She has faith in his survival abilities because she has seen him overcome setbacks and challenges before.
(d) She has had a letter from him telling her he is OK.

4. What does Nora ask Josie to do as she is preparing to do something else for Sheriff Harlan Bell in Part IV?
(a) Weed the garden.
(b) Pick hackberries.
(c) Kill the fox that has been harassing them.
(d) Can some fruit.

5. Which of the following injuries does Josie have from the camel?
(a) A crushed torso.
(b) A broken leg.
(c) A lost finger.
(d) A lost eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lurie realize about the spirits of the dead for the first time in Part III?

2. What bothers Nora about her regular visitor to the house shortly after Evelyn is born?

3. What does Nora get from Dolan's room to help her shave Harlan Bell?

4. How does Desma know that it was Nora who wrote the rebuttal letter in The Sentinel?

5. Which winter was a terribly brutal one in Amargo?

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