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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose horse does Håkan take when he takes leave of Jarvis and the caravan?
(a) Helen's brother's horse.
(b) The horse of the first man Håkan killed.
(c) Helen's horse.
(d) Jarvis's horse.

2. How many men does Håkan see climb into the wagon where Helen and her brother are staying?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. What is distinctive about the town of Clangston?
(a) It is underground.
(b) It is composed of only one side of one street.
(c) It is overrun with rattlesnakes.
(d) It is composed of three parallel streets with no intersections.

4. Håkan's experience being bitten by a snake causes him to discover that he fears what element?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Death.
(c) The unknown.
(d) Life.

5. Håkan at first considers the town he enters to be what kind of object between him and his goal of reaching New York?
(a) A reprieve.
(b) A rest.
(c) An obligation.
(d) An obstacle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Håkan's five senses alerts him to the close proximity of "civilization" (107)?

2. The woman who takes Håkan as a sex slave has an infection in what part of her body?

3. What element of weather leads to the men's predicament of being stranded?

4. How does Håkan retrieve the item he leaves in the village by mistake?

5. What action does Hakan refuse to take throughout most of the journey to America?

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