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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Nora help Desma to do at her house in Part II?
(a) Weed the garden.
(b) Drive in new fenceposts.
(c) Cut down a tree.
(d) Fix a latch.

6. Why does Nora claim not to be worried about the delay in her husband getting home?
(a) She talked to a friend who saw him in town recently.
(b) She has faith in his survival abilities because she has seen him overcome setbacks and challenges before.
(c) She has had a letter from him telling her he is OK.
(d) She feels in her bones he is alive.

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

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

9. What advice does Donovan give Lurie soon after they meet?
(a) To make sure he married the right woman.
(b) Not to ever let anyone touch him.
(c) Not to ever drink except from his own flask.
(d) To make sure he worked hard every day.

10. Who runs the company Lurie is traveling with?
(a) Moss Keane.
(b) Ned Beale.
(c) Sergeant Stone.
(d) Ferny Bell.

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

12. Who owns cattle a town away from Nora and is very wealthy and influential?
(a) Lurie.
(b) Jolly.
(c) Marshal Berger.
(d) Merrion Crace.

13. Who does Nora talk to only in her mind?
(a) Her own dead mother.
(b) Evelyn.
(c) Emmett.
(d) Her husband.

14. What author does Obreht open the novel with a quote from?
(a) James Galvin.
(b) John La Carre.
(c) Patrick DeWitt.
(d) William Shakespeare.

15. 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 is George's camel's name?

2. Who were Rey Ruiz's people?

3. Why is Lurie being chased by the law?

4. Why is Desma so mad at the postman?

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

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