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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 Toby want his mother to see in the brush in Part I?
(a) Tracks he has found.
(b) Snow.
(c) Stars.
(d) An injured dog.

2. Where is there talk of moving the county seat to, away from Amargo?
(a) Saratoga.
(b) Ash River.
(c) Fargo.
(d) San Francisco.

3. What advice does Donovan give Lurie soon after they meet?
(a) To make sure he married the right woman.
(b) Not to ever let anyone touch him.
(c) To make sure he worked hard every day.
(d) Not to ever drink except from his own flask.

4. What is Nora's husband's name?
(a) Emmett.
(b) Merrion.
(c) Dolan.
(d) Harlan.

5. Where does Nora grow up?
(a) Saratoga.
(b) Ash River.
(c) Morton Hole.
(d) Amargo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lurie say about camel hair?

2. What does Nora think her two older boys are off to do in the end of Part II?

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

4. What is the name of Lurie's camel?

5. What does Jolly do to prove to people how strong camels are?

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 do Emmett and Nora do when some of their neighbors move away, including the Flores family?

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

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

7. What serious crime does Lurie commit in Part One that gets Marshal John Berger searching for him?

8. How does Toby injure his eye?

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

10. In Part I, what does Lurie wish he could remember his father talking about more than anything else?

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