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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nora find has happened at The Sentinel office when she visits it in town?
(a) Someone has splintered the wood of the staircase at the front.
(b) Someone has thrown something through the window and smashed it.
(c) Someone has left excrement on the porch.
(d) Someone has painted obscenities on the facade.

2. How does Nora meet Emmett?
(a) He is a lawyer her family hires.
(b) He is a landscaper doing work for her.
(c) He is a boarder at her family's boarding house.
(d) He is one of her professors.

3. What is Donovan's want?
(a) To fill his canteen and sip from it all day, never allowing it to empty.
(b) To eat as much as possible.
(c) To sleep without dreaming.
(d) To own his own business.

4. What is George's camel's name?
(a) Maida.
(b) Saleh.
(c) Mifty.
(d) Burke.

5. Where is there talk of moving the county seat to, away from Amargo?
(a) Ash River.
(b) Fargo.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Saratoga.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toby tell his mother he thinks is lurking around their house?

2. Who does Emmett leave the homestead to go looking for?

3. What author does Obreht open the novel with a quote from?

4. What does Jolly do to prove to people how strong camels are?

5. Who is Evelyn's first-born child?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the "Wanted" poster in Part I describe Lurie?

2. What does Toby want to show his mother so badly in Part I that Nora is skeptical about?

3. What was Hobb's special skill, even as a child?

4. What is one of Nora's most pressing concerns on her homestead?

5. How does Toby injure his eye?

6. Why does Nora choose to sign her rebuttal letter to The Sentinel from Ellen Francis?

7. What serious crime does Lurie commit in Part One that gets Marshal John Berger searching for him?

8. What does Donovan do to Lurie immediately after the wanted poster appears?

9. In Part I, what does Lurie wish he could remember his father talking about more than anything else?

10. What makes Lurie give Jolly back the nazar he has stolen from him?

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