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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 he will run and Berger can not catch him.
(c) He challenges him to a duel.
(d) He tells him to leave Gabriela alone.

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

3. What kind of gun does Emmett have in the house?
(a) A Winchester.
(b) A Colt.
(c) A Smith and Wesson.
(d) A Landry.

4. 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 wants to bake all the time.
(d) She does not seem to like men.

5. What does Jolly tell Lurie when Lurie asks him if he has ever killed a man?
(a) He killed one man once, in self-defense.
(b) No, because he is a Muslim.
(c) He does not want to say.
(d) Of course, because he fought for two years in Algiers.

6. Who do Harlan and Nora go out into the night looking for in Part IV?
(a) Josie.
(b) Dolan.
(c) Emmett.
(d) Rob.

7. What does Lurie realize about the spirits of the dead for the first time in Part III?
(a) They are always cold.
(b) They can see the living, but not each other.
(c) The can touch things themselves.
(d) They can howl like wolves.

8. Who tries to speed up the travelers in Lurie's company in Part III?
(a) Shaw.
(b) George.
(c) Mico.
(d) Jolly.

9. What is Shaw afraid that the men he is with will do after he dies?
(a) Leave his body to the wolves.
(b) Dig him a shallow grave.
(c) Rob his possessions.
(d) Never tell his family he died.

10. How does Doc Almenara dress?
(a) As if he thinks Amargo is a boomtown.
(b) As if he is always going to a funeral.
(c) Like a cowboy.
(d) Like a servant.

11. What nickname did Emmett call Evelyn?
(a) Sweetie.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Birdie.
(d) Honey.

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

13. What is Nora's mother-in-law's first name?
(a) Millicent.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Harriet.
(d) Mildred.

14. What does the doctor Lurie pays to see Burke offer Lurie for Burke?
(a) $15.
(b) $200.
(c) $100.
(d) $30.

15. What is in the envelope the Doc leaves with Nora in Part III?
(a) Rebuttal letters Emmett failed to print in The Sentinel.
(b) Money.
(c) Prescriptions for Toby's medicine.
(d) Deeds for a house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nora ask Josie to do as she is preparing to do something else for Sheriff Harlan Bell in Part IV?

2. What does Harlan propose buying from Nora?

3. What does Jolly propose to Lurie after Shaw and Mico die?

4. What term of affection does Nora sometimes use to address Toby?

5. Who had been sheriff before Harlan Bell in Amargo?

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