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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who are Nora's three sons?
(a) John, Danny, and Rob.
(b) Rob, Dolan, and Toby.
(c) Toby, Jason, and Emmett.
(d) James, John, and Toby.

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

4. What does Jolly call Lurie?
(a) Misafir.
(b) John.
(c) Misfit.
(d) James.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Emmett leave the homestead to go looking for?

2. What is the name of the paper Nora's family runs?

3. What does Lurie refer to as a spirit's yearning that he is compelled to carry out?

4. How does Desma know that it was Nora who wrote the rebuttal letter in The Sentinel?

5. How does Jolly pray?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information is contained in the Ash River Clarion's rebuttal letter to Nora's letter that greatly upsets Nora?

2. What does Toby want to show his mother so badly in Part I that Nora is skeptical about?

3. What does Donovan say when Lurie asks his ghost why he left him behind?

4. Why does Nora choose to sign her rebuttal letter to The Sentinel from Ellen Francis?

5. What two kinds of folk had Donovan once told Lurie the world was full of?

6. What does Lurie steal on the ship he takes cover on whose owner he later bumps into in Part I?

7. What kind of disposition does Lurie say camels would not suit?

8. What is Hobb's "want" that Lurie is compelled to fulfill?

9. What one word does Emmett question Nora's use of in her rebuttal letter she wants him to print in The Sentinel?

10. What power does Josie claim to have that Nora is skeptical about?

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