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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Warm say his father had died?
2. What did the prospector tell Charlie and Eli about the camp of men they would pass on their way to Warm's claim?
3. What was it that gave away Warm and Morris's position to the Sisters Brothers at first?
4. What was the name of the ferry Charlie and Eli boarded after leaving San Francisco?
5. Why did Warm tell Morris he wanted Morris to go into business with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the formula do to Morris and Warm the first time they had used it?
2. When Eli and Charlie were discussing how they would carry out the job on Warm, what did Eli say that surprised Charlie?
3. Why were there so many abandoned boats in the harbor at San Francisco?
4. What state did the Sisters brothers find Henry Morris's hotel room in in San Francisco?
5. What possible option did Charlie and Eli discuss that did not involve killing Warm and Morris?
6. How did Eli feel after discovering that Tub had died?
7. What gave away Morris and Warm's position when Eli and Charlie went back to their camp?
8. What happened when Charlie and Eli were staking out Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?
9. What did Charlie and Eli give to Tub before splashing the alcohol in his eye socket?
10. What did Eli see as the brothers were leaving San Francisco, and how did he feel about the city as they left?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is Eli's reaction to his horse Tub's loss of an eye and his brother Charlie's loss of a hand similar? What do his reactions to both of these tragedies reveal about Eli's attitudes and character traits?
Essay Topic 2
How does Eli's first sight of the harbor and all the abandoned ships in San Francisco affect him? What does the sight and the vivid imagery deWitt employs in this scene reveal about the atmosphere surrounding the California Gold Rush?
Essay Topic 3
What do the dead beavers in the River of Light symbolize? Why does Eli go to the trouble of moving them?
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