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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is in the picture with Merrion Crace that hangs in the Mercantile?
(a) Red the Buster.
(b) Doc Holliday.
(c) Wyatt Earp.
(d) Billy the Kid.

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

4. What creatures are trying to get into the shack where Lurie's men are holed up for the night after the fight at the river?
(a) Wolves.
(b) Bears.
(c) Lions.
(d) Camels.

5. What does Nora think Emmett's delay in returning home from Cumberland might be due to?
(a) His need to settle a score with someone.
(b) His need to visit his brother.
(c) His impulse for adventure.
(d) His need to settle his debts.

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

7. Who does Nora's son Dolan like in a romantic way?
(a) Josie.
(b) Gabriela.
(c) Jessica.
(d) Desma.

8. What does Merrion Crace bring as a gift to Toby?
(a) A stereoscope.
(b) A set of binoculars.
(c) A telescope.
(d) A dictionary.

9. What tribe does the person who visits Nora shortly after Evelyn is born belong to?
(a) Iroquois.
(b) Mercantile.
(c) Apache.
(d) Cherokee.

10. Which of the following injuries does Josie have from the camel?
(a) A lost finger.
(b) A lost eye.
(c) A broken leg.
(d) A crushed torso.

11. What does Jolly propose to Lurie after Shaw and Mico die?
(a) They could leave the rest of the company, pretending they also died.
(b) They could open a boarding house together.
(c) They could become bank robbers.
(d) They could travel to Turkey together.

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

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

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

15. Why does Nora tell Josie she further doubts her story about seeing the beast from her window?
(a) Josie was not in the house the night she says she saw the beast.
(b) Josie does not have a window.
(c) Josie's window is so dirty no one can see anything out of it.
(d) Josie's window does not overlook the barn, and she told Nora she saw the beast by the barn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nora get from Dolan's room to help her shave Harlan Bell?

2. Why had Josie, Rob, and Dolan all gone out to the springhouse the night before it was raided?

3. What does Jolly tell Lurie when Lurie asks him if he has ever killed a man?

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

5. What does Josie tell Nora about the beast she saw?

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