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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 is in the envelope the Doc leaves with Nora in Part III?
(a) Prescriptions for Toby's medicine.
(b) Money.
(c) Rebuttal letters Emmett failed to print in The Sentinel.
(d) Deeds for a house.

2. Who is Harlan Bell's wife?
(a) Emma Konig-Bell.
(b) Lulu May-Bell.
(c) Marla Burke-Bell.
(d) Hannah Scarsdale-Bell.

3. What does Nora wish Doc Almenara brought her in Part III?
(a) Elk steaks.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Water.
(d) A gun.

4. What does Doc Almenara bring to Nora when he visits in Part III?
(a) Water.
(b) Pan dulce.
(c) Pot roast.
(d) Elk steak.

5. Who had been sheriff before Harlan Bell in Amargo?
(a) Mac Calwell.
(b) Duke Bowler.
(c) John Raines.
(d) Red Burton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creatures are trying to get into the shack where Lurie's men are holed up for the night after the fight at the river?

2. What does Josie offer to do for Sheriff Harlan Bell in Part IV?

3. What is Nora's mother-in-law's first name?

4. What does Lurie tell Marshal John Berger when Berger catches up with him in Part IV?

5. What does Josie tell Nora about the beast she saw?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Emmett get so upset with Nora for giving a quote to a reporter about the election involving Sheriff Harlan Bell?

2. What is the problem that drives Gabriela and Lurie apart in Part IV?

3. Why does Nora begin to worry about the old Indian woman after she does not return for days on end in Part III?

4. How does Lurie feel after telling the writer much of his life story in Part IV?

5. Who does Duena Maria lead Lurie and Burke to, almost impossibly?

6. Why does Josie seem to take such a long time getting ready to pick berries in Part IV?

7. How does Nora feel when Sheriff Harlan Bell gets married?

8. What does Lurie come to think of as Jolly's want, even as Jolly is still alive, in Part III?

9. What does the doctor who tends to Burke offer Lurie for Burke in Part IV?

10. What kind of harm comes to The Sentinel offices in Part III?

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