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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Jeanne’s son that comes out as a gay man in Chapter Sixty?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Paul.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Thomas.

2. Where does Eli join the Texas Rangers in Chapter Forty?
(a) Louisville.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Fredericksburg.

3. Who does Peter describe as renting out his pig stall for eighty dollars a week in Chapter Forty-five?
(a) The Colonel.
(b) Pedro Garcia.
(c) Niles Gilbert.
(d) Bill Hollis.

4. Who comes to the jail to give Eli a lecture on morality in Chapter Thirty-four?
(a) Judge Wilbarger.
(b) Judge Black.
(c) Judge Wilson.
(d) Sheriff Van Zandt.

5. By what does slang term does Sally call Maria when she tells Peter she is coming to visit in Chapter Fifty-one?
(a) Conquistador.
(b) Bambino.
(c) Pelado.
(d) Dolly.

6. What is the name of the German captive who Eli spent time with?
(a) Ingrid Goetz.
(b) Susan Buck.
(c) Emma Sanders.
(d) Mary Swanson.

7. What is the name of Judge Black’s daughter that Eli becomes involved with romantically in Chapter Forty-six?
(a) Emily.
(b) Sally.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Madeline.

8. Where do the Pinkards move in Chapter Twenty-seven?
(a) Dallas.
(b) New York.
(c) Houston.
(d) New Mexico.

9. When was the first oil well drilled in Iraq, according to the narrator in Chapter Thirty-five?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1927.

10. Who is the author of the novel The Virginian?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Owen Wister.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Walt Whitman.

11. What years are described in Chapter Forty-three?
(a) 1901-1903.
(b) 1854-1855.
(c) 1911-1913.
(d) 1856-1857.

12. Who does Peter claim “has stopped tending his crops and is instead driving around on his tractor, charging ten dollars (a week’s wages) to pull stuck trucks out of bogholes in the drilling fields” in Chapter Forty-five?
(a) Niles Gilbert.
(b) Pedro Garcia.
(c) Grover Deshields.
(d) Bill Hollis.

13. Peter says in Chapter Thirty-nine, “It is as my father says. Men are meant to be” what?
(a) Ruled.
(b) Rich.
(c) Loved.
(d) Free.

14. When does Eli say that their commission as Rangers ran out in Chapter Forty-six?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1911.

15. How much money does Peter learn that his family gave to Maria to leave in Chapter Fifty-one?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $20,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Chapter Thirty-four begin?

2. Who is the boy that begins following Eli around town in Chapter Thirty-seven?

3. What is the date of Peter’s first diary entry in Chapter Twenty-four?

4. What food do the Comanches believe makes a person into a coward, according to Eli in Chapter Thirty-one?

5. When is Peter’s first diary entry dated in Chapter Thirty-three?

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