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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 contraption that Ab wants to get rid of?
(a) The Flint.
(b) The Skein.
(c) The Wrecking Ball.
(d) The Little Giant.

2. What does Nora think when Rob is born?
(a) She wishes he was a girl.
(b) She does not really want another child.
(c) She will end up making another grave mistake with this baby.
(d) He will not live very long.

3. What does Nora ask Josie to do as she is preparing to do something else for Sheriff Harlan Bell in Part IV?
(a) Can some fruit.
(b) Pick hackberries.
(c) Weed the garden.
(d) Kill the fox that has been harassing them.

4. What does Doc Almenara bring to Nora when he visits in Part III?
(a) Pot roast.
(b) Pan dulce.
(c) Water.
(d) Elk steak.

5. What does Nora see on the camel in the dark?
(a) A rider.
(b) A great number of saddle bags.
(c) A dog.
(d) A water barrel.

6. Who comes to visit Nora shortly after Evelyn is born?
(a) An old Indian woman.
(b) A man asking for water regularly.
(c) A tabby cat.
(d) A young white neighbor.

7. What does Lurie tell Marshal John Berger when Berger catches up with him in Part IV?
(a) He insists he is not the man Berger is looking for.
(b) He tells him to leave Gabriela alone.
(c) He challenges him to a duel.
(d) He tells him he will run and Berger can not catch him.

8. What bothers Nora about her regular visitor to the house shortly after Evelyn is born?
(a) She drinks too much water.
(b) She wants to hold the baby all the time.
(c) She does not seem to like men.
(d) She wants to bake all the time.

9. What does Josie offer to do for Sheriff Harlan Bell in Part IV?
(a) Make him a poultice.
(b) Shine his shoes.
(c) Shave his beard for him.
(d) Cook him dinner.

10. What term of affection does Nora sometimes use to address Toby?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Sweetheart.
(c) Honey.
(d) Lamb.

11. What spirit does Nora ask Josie to contact for her?
(a) Evelyn.
(b) Ellen.
(c) Merrion.
(d) Charlie.

12. What happens to break Lurie and his own true love apart?
(a) She is forced to move by her overbearing mother.
(b) She is shot dead by a marshal.
(c) Her estranged husband writes to say he is returning.
(d) He is put in jail for a long time.

13. Who is Jolly's camel?
(a) Mahmoud.
(b) Saleh.
(c) Yawel.
(d) Abdul.

14. Who owns the camels in Lurie's company?
(a) The War Department.
(b) Ned Beale.
(c) Merrion Crace.
(d) Jolly.

15. Who tested out the phone line at the Worther Hotel?
(a) Harlan Bell and Nora Lark.
(b) Merrion Crace and Nora Lark.
(c) Merrion Crace and Emmett Lark.
(d) Walton Pickney and Merrion Crace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which winter was a terribly brutal one in Amargo?

2. What bleak outpost does Lurie reminisce to Burke about them staying at one Christmas Eve?

3. What does Sheriff Harlan Bell say to Nora when she tells him about the brick that was thrown through the window of The Sentinel?

4. Who is Lurie's one and only love?

5. What does Emmett once jokingly compare coming back to his house after being away to?

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