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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Donovan's want?
(a) To sleep without dreaming.
(b) To own his own business.
(c) To fill his canteen and sip from it all day, never allowing it to empty.
(d) To eat as much as possible.

2. Who were Rey Ruiz's people?
(a) Salvadorans.
(b) Mexicans and Quechans.
(c) Columbians and Quechans.
(d) Mexicans and Columbians.

3. Who is Evelyn's first-born child?
(a) Evelyn.
(b) Mary.
(c) Margot.
(d) Desma.

4. Why has Nora recently shaved Toby's head in Part I?
(a) Because the doctor had needed to operate on his brain.
(b) To deal with lice.
(c) Because it was too hot for him.
(d) Because it was dirty with mud.

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

6. What does Nora think her two older boys are off to do in the end of Part II?
(a) Rob a bank.
(b) Try to sell the paper.
(c) Get married.
(d) Look for their father.

7. What does Toby want his mother to see in the brush in Part I?
(a) Tracks he has found.
(b) Snow.
(c) An injured dog.
(d) Stars.

8. What magazine does the postman have for both Nora and Desma?
(a) Lady's Home Journal.
(b) Redbook.
(c) Vogue.
(d) Mission.

9. What is one of the things Desma helps Nora do when Nora first arrives in Amargo?
(a) Sew clothes.
(b) Plant a good garden.
(c) Get a job.
(d) Find water.

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

11. What does Donovan tell Lurie when he asks Donovan why he left Lurie at the roadside?
(a) He thought he had a better chance of living on his own.
(b) He could not carry Lurie any longer.
(c) He thought it was the last kindness he could pay him.
(d) Lurie was no longer his responsibility.

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

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

14. What special gift does the girl who lives with Nora claim to have?
(a) The ability to speak with dead spirits.
(b) The ability to interpret dreams.
(c) The ability to read minds.
(d) The ability to move objects with her mind.

15. Who are Nora's three sons?
(a) John, Danny, and Rob.
(b) Rob, Dolan, and Toby.
(c) James, John, and Toby.
(d) Toby, Jason, and Emmett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lurie compelled to do by Hobb's spirit?

2. What is Nora's husband's name?

3. Who does Emmett take The Sentinel over from?

4. Who owns cattle a town away from Nora and is very wealthy and influential?

5. What does Donovan leave Lurie with at the side of the road when they part ways?

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