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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 word does Emmett object to in Nora's letter that she wants him to print in The Sentinel?
(a) Redoubtable.
(b) Retribution.
(c) Contrition.
(d) Contraction.

2. What was Lurie's father's full name?
(a) Market Felon.
(b) Hadziosman Djuric.
(c) Kivdriovan Momar.
(d) Osman Kivrak.

3. How does Desma know that it was Nora who wrote the rebuttal letter in The Sentinel?
(a) Because Nora was the only one who had known her first husband's name.
(b) Because Nora is the only person Desma told about her first husband being shot.
(c) Because Nora is the only woman she know who can write.
(d) Because Nora's handwriting is so recognizable.

4. What does Jolly do to prove to people how strong camels are?
(a) Has the camel lift weights with its legs.
(b) Keeps piling water containers onto the camel.
(c) Asks the townspeople to bring anything they want to load upon the camel.
(d) Puts a ton of bricks on the camel's back.

5. What does Donovan do to Lurie when he finds out they are wanted men?
(a) Finds Lurie's family for Lurie to go with.
(b) Leaves Lurie at the bank.
(c) Shaves Lurie's head.
(d) Stabs Lurie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Emmett take The Sentinel over from?

2. Who is Nora's mother?

3. Why is Lurie being chased by the law?

4. What do Lurie and the coachman do for money?

5. What special gift does the girl who lives with Nora claim to have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lurie acquire the last name of Mattie?

2. What is one of Nora's most pressing concerns on her homestead?

3. What kind of creature does Lurie see for the first time when he steals away on the ship in Part II?

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

5. How does the "Wanted" poster in Part I describe Lurie?

6. What is awkward about Nora's visit to Desma in Part II?

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

8. What was Hobb's special skill, even as a child?

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

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

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