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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Andrews describe the new clothes brought to him by the hotel clerk?
(a) Cold and damp.
(b) Frayed and threadbare.
(c) Heavy and warm.
(d) Rough and ill-fitting.

2. How far away from Miller are the buffalo before he starts shooting?
(a) 50 yards.
(b) 20 yards.
(c) 300 yards.
(d) 150 yards.

3. About whom does Andrews ask the prostitute he meets at the bar upon the return to Butcher's Crossing?
(a) Andrews's father.
(b) Miller.
(c) Francine.
(d) Schneider.

4. Who drives the oxen team during the hunting expedition?
(a) Andrews.
(b) Charley.
(c) Miller.
(d) Schneider.

5. What is NOT a type of business operating within the town of Butcher's Crossing?
(a) Livery stable.
(b) Leather goods shop.
(c) Blacksmith shop.
(d) Dental office.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the party is named by Andrews as the person "who had undergone the most marked change in appearance" (238) since the start of the expedition?

2. Miller states that the people who come to collect the buffalo bones will use the bones for what purpose?

3. Who cuts a supply of firewood once the hunting party sets up camp in the valley?

4. What happens to cause Miller to decide to use the last of the party's water for the oxen and horses?

5. What adjective does Andrews use to describe the land around him, now that it is covered with snow?

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