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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 does Nora find has happened at The Sentinel office when she visits it in town?
(a) Someone has thrown something through the window and smashed it.
(b) Someone has painted obscenities on the facade.
(c) Someone has splintered the wood of the staircase at the front.
(d) Someone has left excrement on the porch.

2. Who is Evelyn's first-born child?
(a) Margot.
(b) Desma.
(c) Evelyn.
(d) Mary.

3. What does Lurie steal on the ship because of Hobbs' want?
(a) A fountain pen.
(b) A ring.
(c) A nazar.
(d) A compass.

4. What happens to the springhouse in Part I?
(a) It is destroyed by fire.
(b) It is destroyed by tornado.
(c) It is buried in snow.
(d) It is ransacked.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Donovan tell Lurie when he asks Donovan why he left Lurie at the roadside?

2. Who runs the company Lurie is traveling with?

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

4. What is Donovan's want?

5. What health problem does Toby have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is the voice Nora often hears and has silent conversations with?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What errand is Emmett very late returning from in Part II?

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

10. What does Donovan do to Lurie immediately after the wanted poster appears?

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