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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nora go into town after leaving Desma's house?
(a) To see if there is any water coming out of the pump.
(b) To check on her boys.
(c) To find food.
(d) To go to the bank.

2. Where is there talk of moving the county seat to, away from Amargo?
(a) Saratoga.
(b) Ash River.
(c) Fargo.
(d) San Francisco.

3. What does Desma do to the postman as he rides away?
(a) Trips him.
(b) Curses at him.
(c) Shoots him.
(d) Hits him with a stone and knocks him off his horse.

4. What does Lurie say about camel hair?
(a) It is warm.
(b) It is the coarsest in creation.
(c) It is flimsy.
(d) It is the softest in creation.

5. Who does Emmett take The Sentinel over from?
(a) James Madison.
(b) Gaston Clare.
(c) Sandy Freed.
(d) Richard Reese.

6. What do Lurie and the coachman do for money?
(a) Make harnesses for horses.
(b) Pick pockets.
(c) Steal from the ships in the harbor.
(d) Dig up graves.

7. What does the rebuttal letter in the Ash River Clarion say about Desma?
(a) She has been married four times.
(b) She has been wanted for her first husband's murder.
(c) She is wanted for robbery.
(d) Her first husband never really died.

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

9. What does Desma tell the postman as he scrambles off her land?
(a) Not to steal from her garden ever again.
(b) Not to lay a hand on a piece of paper with her name on it ever again.
(c) Not to call her by her first husband's name ever again.
(d) Not to speak to Nora ever again.

10. Who is the girl who lives in Nora's household?
(a) Jessica Jones.
(b) Margot Taylor.
(c) Jenny Beale.
(d) Josie Kincaid.

11. Who is pursuing Lurie and the gang he commits crimes with?
(a) Marshal John Berger.
(b) Marshal James Rider.
(c) Marshal John Gadoza.
(d) Marshal John Smith.

12. What does Lurie's father call himself for a while after growing frustrated with people mispronouncing his name?
(a) John Smith.
(b) Ronald Weasley.
(c) Hodgeman Drury.
(d) Bob Jones.

13. What is written on a gold-lettered shingle at The Sentinel office?
(a) Emmett Lark.
(b) The Newspaper Boys.
(c) Lark and Sons.
(d) The Lark Family Editors.

14. Who is Nora's mother?
(a) Emmeline Harey.
(b) Jennifer Jordan.
(c) Lenore Valentine.
(d) Ellen Francis Volk.

15. What does Donovan leave Lurie with at the side of the road when they part ways?
(a) A blanket.
(b) A bag of money.
(c) A dog.
(d) Bread and a canteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jolly pray?

2. What does Lurie feel as the strong want of the giant-sized man he comes across in Part I?

3. What does Nora help Desma to do at her house in Part II?

4. What does Jolly call Lurie?

5. What regiments had Rey Ruiz's father spent years with?

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