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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Janey offer to do when she tells Roscoe that bandits are about to ambush them?
(a) She offers to shoot them.
(b) She suggests a short cut around them.
(c) She offers to cook them dinner.
(d) She offers to run ahead and engage them, so Roscoe can surprise them.

2. What river do Lorena and Jake reach before the herd?
(a) Yellowstone River
(b) Mississippi River
(c) Red River
(d) Nueces River

3. What assignment in the cattle drive goes to Deets?
(a) Scouting nightly bed and water for the herd
(b) Right Point
(c) Back up
(d) The drags

4. What is Deets looking for when he finds Lorena and Jake?
(a) His calvary cap
(b) Lorena's horse
(c) Call's watch
(d) A place for the herd to cross the river

5. Who rescues Roscoe from the bandits?
(a) Wilbarger
(b) Janey
(c) Gus
(d) July

6. Who did Jake Spoon kill?
(a) An Indian
(b) A sheriff
(c) A Texas Ranger
(d) A dentist

7. What did Call give Newt in honor of his first trip to Mexico to round up livestock?
(a) A horse
(b) A watch
(c) A gun and holster
(d) The true story of his father

8. Who tells July that Jake is coming on a cattle drive?
(a) Roscoe
(b) Gus
(c) Dee Boot
(d) Wilbarger

9. What did Gus give Dish outside the saloon?
(a) Two dollars
(b) A horse
(c) A job
(d) A deck of cards

10. Who is the only whiskey trader who talks to Elmira?
(a) Roscoe
(b) Charlie
(c) Fowler
(d) Jake

11. Who does Roscoe pick up on the way to find July?
(a) Joe
(b) Janey
(c) Louisa
(d) Blue Duck

12. What are the O'Brien brothers doing when Deets sees them?
(a) Sleeping
(b) Fighting the Mexican bandits
(c) Riding horses
(d) Singing

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

14. What wakes Newt from dozing when he was supposed to be watching Lorena?
(a) Gunfire
(b) Lorena's screams
(c) Po Campo
(d) A cattle stampede

15. Where does Gus stop on the way to find a cook, tears on his cheeks?
(a) The Texas Capital Building
(b) Buckhorn Saloon
(c) Blue Duck's camp
(d) Clara's Orchard

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Lorena with when Dish goes to see her?

2. What does Gus realize when Jake comes into the camp?

3. Who sings a mournful ballad to the cattle?

4. What does Newt do, as he watches Sean dying?

5. What has Elmira told the townspeople about her former husband?

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