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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 277 - 325).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Warm learn about chemistry?
(a) From his father.
(b) In school.
(c) From a lieutenant colonel named Briggs.
(d) From his mother.

2. What did the inn keeper tell Eli that hurt his feelings?
(a) That she was already attached.
(b) That she hated his line of work.
(c) That she thought he was ugly.
(d) That she preferred men who were slimmer than he was.

3. Who was the Commodore's scout who has gone ahead of Charlie and Eli to San Francisco on the Hermann Warm job?
(a) John Smith.
(b) Harry Jacobs.
(c) John Reynolds.
(d) Henry Morris.

4. What ultimately happened to Charlie's hand in Part V?
(a) A doctor repaired it.
(b) The swelling and blistering went away on its own.
(c) It had to be amputated.
(d) Charlie lost two fingers from it.

5. What did Eli see when he emerged from Warm's tent right after Warm died?
(a) A half-dozen Indians had surrounded their camp.
(b) The Commodore was holding Charlie hostage.
(c) The rough prospectors were back for revenge.
(d) More beavers had died on the river bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creatures seemed to be watching the four men as they worked in the river?

2. What did Charlie do the boy the brothers found with the abandoned wagons?

3. What injury did Eli's horse Tub sustain as he was tied up at the shack with the string of beads?

4. What did Charlie tell the boy with the wagons they had done to his father?

5. Who did the prospector say was willing to pay for special pelt of a specific animal?

(see the answer key)

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