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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 75 - 148).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nora decide to write a letter in The Sentinel About?
(a) How Doc Almenara is corrupt.
(b) How the town needs more businesses to stay alive.
(c) How awful Merrion Crace is.
(d) Why the county seat should stay in Amargo.

2. What is the name of Lurie's camel?
(a) Notty.
(b) Burke.
(c) Barley.
(d) Wizard.

3. What is the scarcest and most precious resource in Nora's household?
(a) Water.
(b) Money.
(c) Food.
(d) Gold.

4. What is George's camel's name?
(a) Maida.
(b) Burke.
(c) Mifty.
(d) Saleh.

5. Who does Emmett leave the homestead to go looking for?
(a) Paul Griggs, the family's water person.
(b) His older brother Tony.
(c) Evelyn.
(d) Merrion Crace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Emmett object to in Nora's letter that she wants him to print in The Sentinel?

2. What does Lurie say about camel hair?

3. Who is the postman that comes to Desma's while Nora is there?

4. What curiosity unites Emmett and Nora when they first meet?

5. Where does Nora grow up?

(see the answer key)

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