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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 22-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the livestock business?
(a) The Dry Bean Saloon
(b) The Texas Rangers
(c) The Hat Creek Cattle Company
(d) Lonesome Dove

2. How many stragglers does Newt ride past in the dust?
(a) Four thousand head
(b) Thirty-five head
(c) Eighteen hundred head
(d) Twenty-six hundred head

3. What does Gus offer for "a poke" regardless of whether Lorena wins at cutting the cards or not?
(a) Fifty dollars
(b) To take her to San Francisco
(c) Ten dollars
(d) A new dress

4. Who goes back to Lonesome Dove with the first herd of horses?
(a) Call, Pea Eye, and Newt
(b) Jake, Dish and Deets
(c) Sean and Allen O'Brien
(d) Gus, Call, and Pea Eye

5. Knowing that Gus is right and Jake will not take Lorena to San Francisco, where does Jake plan to take her instead?
(a) New Mexico
(b) San Antonio
(c) Arkansas
(d) Montana

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lorena want Jake to do with the fifty dollars?

2. Who did Clara marry?

3. Who ropes the second horse for the O'Brien brothers?

4. What does Gus warn Lorena that Jake will do?

5. What does Jake do when Lorena tells him about Gus and the fifty-dollar poke she says she turned down?

(see the answer key)

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