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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Swede drink the whiskey?
(a) With a straw.
(b) In a paper cup.
(c) In little sips.
(d) In big gulps.

2. What do the Easterner and the cowboy wonder about Scully and the Swede?
(a) Where they got the whiskey.
(b) What has caused the change in the men.
(c) If they want to play poker.
(d) If they want to go to dinner.

3. Why does the hotel owner meet the train every day?
(a) To buy newspapers.
(b) To pick up supplies.
(c) To lure potential guests to the hotel.
(d) To meet newcomers to town.

4. What does Scully offer and the Swede declines?
(a) Tea.
(b) Water.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Whiskey.

5. What do the other men ask Scully after the Swede leaves?
(a) Why Scully is putting up with the Swede.
(b) If he thinks they will get snowed in.
(c) What Scully has on the supper menu.
(d) If Scully wants to play cards.

6. Why does the Swede get up and leave the room?
(a) To go to the bank.
(b) To change clothes.
(c) To send a telegram.
(d) To get water.

7. The young man is accused of ____________________.
(a) Raping a woman.
(b) Cheating at cards.
(c) Robbing a bank.
(d) Killing his father.

8. How does Scully get the Swede to smile?
(a) Pats him on the back.
(b) Tells a joke.
(c) Gives him a discount.
(d) Buys him dinner.

9. Scully's son becomes a partner with _______________ in a new card game.
(a) A logger.
(b) A minister.
(c) A whore.
(d) The cowboy.

10. What color is the hotel painted?
(a) Purple.
(b) Green.
(c) Turquoise.
(d) Blue.

11. How old is Cassie?
(a) 4.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) She is dead.

12. Where does the Easterner think the Swede has put himself?
(a) In the nut house.
(b) In a dime novel.
(c) In a hell of a mess.
(d) In a real pickle.

13. How could the Swede's countenance be described as he talks to Scully?
(a) Terrified.
(b) Shaky.
(c) Confident.
(d) Blase.

14. What nationality is the owner of the hotel?
(a) Irish.
(b) Italian.
(c) Polish.
(d) German.

15. What nationality does the cowboy think the Swede is?
(a) Polish.
(b) Danish.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Swede becomes a partner with ________________ in a new card game.

2. The Swede says that he is no __________________.

3. With whom is Scully's son playing cards?

4. Which of the following is not mentioned when Scully talks about the growth of the town?

5. The cowboy doesn't think the Swede is ______________.

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