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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. Why has Nora recently shaved Toby's head in Part I?
(a) Because it was too hot for him.
(b) Because it was dirty with mud.
(c) To deal with lice.
(d) Because the doctor had needed to operate on his brain.

2. Who were Rey Ruiz's people?
(a) Mexicans and Columbians.
(b) Salvadorans.
(c) Mexicans and Quechans.
(d) Columbians and Quechans.

3. What letter does Nora find at The Sentinel office that gives her a clue to her sons' whereabouts?
(a) A letter referencing her son's summons to court.
(b) A letter referencing her sons' rental of a horse and carriage.
(c) A letter referencing her sons' petitioning of the Marshal Office for help finding their father Emmett.
(d) A letter referencing a loan her sons took out.

4. Who is pursuing Lurie and the gang he commits crimes with?
(a) Marshal John Berger.
(b) Marshal James Rider.
(c) Marshal John Smith.
(d) Marshal John Gadoza.

5. Why does Nora claim not to be worried about the delay in her husband getting home?
(a) She talked to a friend who saw him in town recently.
(b) She has had a letter from him telling her he is OK.
(c) She feels in her bones he is alive.
(d) She has faith in his survival abilities because she has seen him overcome setbacks and challenges before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nora find has happened at The Sentinel office when she visits it in town?

2. What does Lurie say about camel hair?

3. What gang does Lurie join that commits crimes?

4. What happens to the springhouse in Part I?

5. What word does Emmett object to in Nora's letter that she wants him to print in The Sentinel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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