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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 222 - 296) .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nora think when Rob is born?
(a) She will end up making another grave mistake with this baby.
(b) He will not live very long.
(c) She does not really want another child.
(d) She wishes he was a girl.

2. Why do some of the men break off from the others in Lurie's party in Part III?
(a) To hunt the wolves.
(b) To pan for gold.
(c) To try to bring a lost girl back to her people.
(d) To fight Indians.

3. Why is Desma so mad at the postman?
(a) He calls her by her first husband's name.
(b) He steals from her garden.
(c) He shreds her mail.
(d) He steals her checks from the mail.

4. Why does Nora claim not to be worried about the delay in her husband getting home?
(a) She feels in her bones he is alive.
(b) She has faith in his survival abilities because she has seen him overcome setbacks and challenges before.
(c) She talked to a friend who saw him in town recently.
(d) She has had a letter from him telling her he is OK.

5. What does Nora see on the camel in the dark?
(a) A dog.
(b) A water barrel.
(c) A great number of saddle bags.
(d) A rider.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Desma know that it was Nora who wrote the rebuttal letter in The Sentinel?

2. Who is Lurie's one and only love?

3. What does Nora ask Josie to do as she is preparing to do something else for Sheriff Harlan Bell in Part IV?

4. What does Merrion Crace bring as a gift to Toby?

5. What does Desma do to the postman as he rides away?

(see the answer key)

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