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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 starts the shootout between Lurie's group and the other men at the river in Part III?
(a) The little girl tells Lurie she is very afraid of the men.
(b) The little girls tells Lurie's group that the men have her father's horse, meaning they are the ones that killed her family.
(c) The little girl tells Lurie's group she sees her mother's necklace in one of the men's bags.
(d) The little girl tells Lurie she has seen the men before and they are thieves.

2. What is Shaw afraid that the men he is with will do after he dies?
(a) Never tell his family he died.
(b) Dig him a shallow grave.
(c) Rob his possessions.
(d) Leave his body to the wolves.

3. What does Harlan propose buying from Nora?
(a) A cart.
(b) A horse.
(c) A kettle.
(d) An axe.

4. What does Nora try to use to appease her regular visitor to the house shortly after Evelyn is born?
(a) Bread.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Sand.
(d) Coffee.

5. What bleak outpost does Lurie reminisce to Burke about them staying at one Christmas Eve?
(a) San Antonio, Texas.
(b) Mobile, Alabama.
(c) Graveneck, Wyoming.
(d) Jackson, Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term of affection does Nora sometimes use to address Toby?

2. How does Mico die?

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

4. Why had Josie, Rob, and Dolan all gone out to the springhouse the night before it was raided?

5. What bothers Nora about her regular visitor to the house shortly after Evelyn is born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nora tell Sheriff Harlan Bell about the whereabouts of Rob and Dolan when he first asks in Part IV?

2. In Part III, what does Nora overhear her husband telling her two older sons that hurts her feelings?

3. In Part IV, what is a particularly low point for Lurie and Burke?

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

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

6. In Part III, why does Jolly ask Lurie to strike him in the jaw, but not too hard?

7. In Part IV, why does Nora feel guilty for having taken so long to go look for Josie?

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

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

10. In Part III, why does Nora grow uneasy letting the old Indian woman hold Evelyn?

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