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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lame Beaver do with the first gun his tribe owns?
(a) He fires it.
(b) He throws it away.
(c) He breaks it.
(d) He trades it away.

2. What does John Skimmerhorn hire Nacho as for his trip to Texas in Chapter 8?
(a) A laborer.
(b) A translator.
(c) A guide.
(d) A cook.

3. In Chapter 8, what does John Skimmerhorn's group lose during their trip across the desert?
(a) Their maps.
(b) One horse.
(c) A week's worth of food.
(d) A few cows.

4. How does Jake Pasquinel die?
(a) He starves.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He is hung.

5. What does Pasquinel arm himself with while waiting for the Rude Water tribe to show up with his pelts?
(a) A knife.
(b) A gun.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A bow and arrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what animal does the narrator say the bison encountered?

2. In Chapter 8, how many miles of desert does John Skimmerhorn's group travel across?

3. How does Cottonwood Knee die?

4. Where is the town of Centennial?

5. What prompts the starvation of 1863?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Levi earn the right to make a marriage certificate for him and Lucinda?

2. What is Pasquinel's relationship with Lame Beaver?

3. In Chapter 1, what task is Dr. Lewis Vernor asked to do?

4. In Chapter 4, what happens after Lame Beaver kills the two chiefs?

5. Why does John Skimmerhorn help plan Oliver's trip to Texas?

6. Why does Levi decide to turn around and go back east?

7. Why is Larkin interested in Lucinda?

8. How does Levi feel about selling the horses during his trip west?

9. What happens after Larkin finds gold?

10. What happens when Pasquinel is shot with an arrow?

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