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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the stillness of the town form over Scratchy?
(a) The arch bishop.
(b) The arch of an angel.
(c) The arch of a bridge.
(d) The arch of a tomb.

2. Why does Jack not have gun?
(a) He was just married in San Antonio.
(b) He could not get through security with a gun.
(c) His guns are in his luggage.
(d) He felt wrong to wear them in church.

3. When does Scratchy first notice the bride?
(a) When they round the corner.
(b) When he shoots Jack.
(c) When Jack tells him that he is married.
(d) When she screams.

4. What is Jack's wife's reaction to Scratchy?
(a) She stands bravely as if expecting this.
(b) She turns red with embarrassment.
(c) She starts to cry.
(d) She turns yellow, like she's seen a snake.

5. Scratchy fumes at Jack's house like what?
(a) Like a Texas sunrise, red as fire.
(b) Like a Texas river running over her banks.
(c) Like a war, with gunshots heard all round.
(d) Like the winter wind attacking a prairie cabin in the North.

6. What is the color of the tops of Scratchy's boots?
(a) Red.
(b) Violte.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

7. What did the color of the wood on the train look like?
(a) Dark as the surface of a pool of oil.
(b) The color of a beautiful brown horse.
(c) The color of shoe polish.
(d) Gleaming like a wooden coach.

8. What is the beauty of the train a symbol for in Jack's mind?
(a) The purity of his job.
(b) His simple home.
(c) The newness of the marriage.
(d) The stillness of the town.

9. The knowledge of Jack's marriage reduces Scratchy to what?
(a) A member of a rough gang.
(b) A simple child of the earlier plains.
(c) A small boy of ten.
(d) A small child from back east.

10. What do the cords of Scratchy's neck do?
(a) Straighten and sink as passion moves him.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Sink into his neck and disappear.
(d) Pop out in red veins.

11. What is the distance between Scratchy and Jack when they meet?
(a) Ten paces.
(b) Three paces.
(c) Twenty paces.
(d) Six paces.

12. How does Scratchy think he will get jack Potter to come out for a fight?
(a) By forcing the front door open.
(b) By shooting into the sky.
(c) By using his house as target practice.
(d) By bombarding his house.

13. When does the dog break into a gallop?
(a) When Scratchy kills the rabbit.
(b) When Scratchcy yells at him.
(c) When Scratchy shoots at the bar.
(d) When Scratchy shoots in the air.

14. Scratcy's yelling is met by what on Main Street?
(a) The men in the bar yelling back.
(b) Shooting.
(c) Silence.
(d) The dog barking.

15. Who offers to fight Scratchy?
(a) No one.
(b) The barkeeper.
(c) The dog.
(d) The drummer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Scratchy's little fingers move with the revolvers?

2. What does Scratchy hold in each hand?

3. At the end of Chapter 3 Scratchy is in the deepest rage over what?

4. What does Scratchy do with the weapon he is trying to load when he sees Jack?

5. Since nobody is opening the door to the bar, where does Scratchy decide to go?

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