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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 149 - 221).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What starts the shootout between Lurie's group and the other men at the river in Part III?
(a) The little girl tells Lurie she is very afraid of the men.
(b) The little girl tells Lurie's group she sees her mother's necklace in one of the men's bags.
(c) The little girl tells Lurie she has seen the men before and they are thieves.
(d) The little girls tells Lurie's group that the men have her father's horse, meaning they are the ones that killed her family.

2. What does Nora find has happened at The Sentinel office when she visits it in town?
(a) Someone has painted obscenities on the facade.
(b) Someone has thrown something through the window and smashed it.
(c) Someone has left excrement on the porch.
(d) Someone has splintered the wood of the staircase at the front.

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

4. What was Lurie's father's full name?
(a) Hadziosman Djuric.
(b) Osman Kivrak.
(c) Market Felon.
(d) Kivdriovan Momar.

5. What does Jolly tell Lurie when Lurie asks him if he has ever killed a man?
(a) Of course, because he fought for two years in Algiers.
(b) He killed one man once, in self-defense.
(c) No, because he is a Muslim.
(d) He does not want to say.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lurie remember telling the writer from Nevada about mounting a camel?

2. What is the name of the contraption that Ab wants to get rid of?

3. Who does Emmett take The Sentinel over from?

4. What does the little girl tell Lurie she sees when he lets her drink from his canteen?

5. Why has Nora recently shaved Toby's head in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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