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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the rival newspaper a few towns over from where Nora lives?
(a) The Saratoga Review.
(b) The Ash River Clarion.
(c) The Times-Tribune.
(d) The Allentown Caller.

2. What does Lurie refer to as a spirit's yearning that he is compelled to carry out?
(a) A wish.
(b) A compulsion.
(c) A dream.
(d) A want.

3. How does Desma know that it was Nora who wrote the rebuttal letter in The Sentinel?
(a) Because Nora is the only woman she know who can write.
(b) Because Nora is the only person Desma told about her first husband being shot.
(c) Because Nora's handwriting is so recognizable.
(d) Because Nora was the only one who had known her first husband's name.

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

5. Which older member of her husband's family also lives with Nora?
(a) John's father.
(b) Emmett's uncle.
(c) James' grandfather.
(d) Emmett's mother.

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

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

8. What letter does Nora find at The Sentinel office that gives her a clue to her sons' whereabouts?
(a) A letter referencing her sons' petitioning of the Marshal Office for help finding their father Emmett.
(b) A letter referencing her sons' rental of a horse and carriage.
(c) A letter referencing a loan her sons took out.
(d) A letter referencing her son's summons to court.

9. What is Desma's last name?
(a) Reese.
(b) Raymond.
(c) Ruiz.
(d) Reyna.

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

11. Who in Lurie's group of travelers most often fights with Jolly?
(a) Shaw.
(b) Mico.
(c) Ab.
(d) George.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Donovan do to Lurie when he finds out they are wanted men?

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

3. Who is the girl who lives in Nora's household?

4. What does Jolly do to prove to people how strong camels are?

5. What is Nora's last name?

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