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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 is Eileen determined to do at any cost?
(a) Send her sons to her home in Canada.
(b) Send her sons to college.
(c) Send her sons to her home in England.
(d) Save her home.

2. When do those searching for Juan make camp?
(a) Late afternoon.
(b) Not until well into the night.
(c) They do not make camp.
(d) At sunset.

3. What does Juan believe is going to happen?
(a) The other party will lose its way.
(b) A tremendous downpour that will wash out the trail behind them.
(c) Bloodshed.
(d) He is not sure.

4. What does Eileen feel as she suddenly wakens?
(a) That a dangerous animal is nearby.
(b) Someone is coming.
(c) That Juan does not remember where Jaime found the gold.
(d) That they should not be there.

5. Who is Jaime?
(a) One of Eileen's sons.
(b) The careless neighbor who caused the fire.
(c) The careless ranch hand who caused the fire.
(d) Eileen's deceased husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main personality trait of Jorge Fernandez?

2. By what was Juan's people's settlement destroyed?

3. How many more days are there to the trip?

4. What is the only way for Eileen to accomplish her goal?

5. Who is the owner of a local cantina who is riding with Wooston?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe a couple of the men who are with Wooston when he comes to tell Eileen of Wooston's intentions to evict the Mulkerin family.

2. How does Jaime Mulkerin come to own the ranch, and where is Jaime now?

3. Where do Sean, Monero, Eileen and Mariana go and why does Michael stay behind?

4. What does Juan tell Eileen about his people?

5. What does Juan say about men following them and what is Sean's response?

6. Who is Zeke Wooston?

7. What is the situation at the Mulkerin ranch, and what does Eileen think needs to be done about it?

8. How is Mariana received at the Mulkerin home?

9. Why is the Mulkerin family's hope in Sean Mulkerin?

10. Where is Eileen raised and how does she come to be in California?

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