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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bess is better, Venters gets a chance to explore the valley. What animals does he find evidence of?
(a) Beaver, wildcats, and foxes.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Tigers.

2. After Jane visits Mary Brandt, she goes to the Gentile village. Why does she go?
(a) She needs to hire men.
(b) She must walk through this area to get home.
(c) She wants to find Venters.
(d) She is curious about the poor end of town.

3. What did Jane's father train her to do?
(a) Cook.
(b) Ride horses.
(c) Run the ranch and manage 100 employees.
(d) Shoot like a man.

4. When Venters goes into Cottonwood, all the men are in the streets. What are they talking about?
(a) The new Mormon church.
(b) The sage.
(c) The coming of Lassiter.
(d) The marriage of Jane and Tull.

5. When Jane and Venters leave Lassiter at the grave and are walking back, they see a rider. Who?
(a) Oldring.
(b) Judkins the Gentile rider.
(c) Rusters.
(d) The Masked Rider.

6. What is the opening to Oldring's den?
(a) A high pass.
(b) Through the middle of the waterfall.
(c) Underwater through a cave.
(d) Through another maze of canyon outlets.

7. What does Mary Brandt, Janes friend, urge her to do when Jane visits her?
(a) Marry Bishop Dyer.
(b) Marry Tull.
(c) Become a Gentile.
(d) Marry Venters.

8. When Lassiter appears, how do Tull's men know that he is a gunman?
(a) He is wearing guns.
(b) He is dressed all in black.
(c) He is riding a fast horse.
(d) He crouches in a gunman's position to ready for shooting.

9. Why does Venters go to Deception Pass every day?
(a) To spy on Oldring.
(b) To kill the Masked Rider.
(c) To camp and hunt.
(d) To practice shooting.

10. What does Venters name the rock at the entrance to Surprise Valley?
(a) Balancing Rock.
(b) Bess's Rock.
(c) Jane's Rock.
(d) Venter's Rock

11. When Venters realizes the Masked Rider is alive, he opens his shirt to look at the wound. What does Venters find?
(a) A woman's breast.
(b) The wound is in the stomach.
(c) The pale body of a very young boy.
(d) The wound is large and bleeding badly.

12. Who is being entertained at the Brandt house?
(a) Bishop Dyer.
(b) Oldring.
(c) Lassiter.
(d) Tull.

13. What are the signs that Milly gave up the Mormon religion?
(a) She told Jane she gave up the religion.
(b) She quit teaching and fought against Mormon ways of raising a girl.
(c) She taught in a Gentile school.
(d) Her headstone has no Mormon symbols.

14. What relationship does Venters assume that Bess had with Oldring?
(a) She was one of his rustlers.
(b) She was his sister.
(c) She was never around Oldring.
(d) She was his lover.

15. Which horse does Jane give to Lassiter?
(a) Bells.
(b) Wrangles.
(c) Black Night.
(d) Star.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Venters goes into the canyon where he saw the rustlers go, what does he find?

2. Lassiter wants to go home? Where is home for Lassiter?

3. When the Bishop is talking with Jane, Lassiter comes up behind him. What happens?

4. As the situation worsens, Jane tells Jerd to only care for only two things. What?

5. Who's house does Jane visit in the Gentile village?

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