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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 had Josie, Rob, and Dolan all gone out to the springhouse the night before it was raided?
(a) To try to call up Emmett's spirit.
(b) To gamble.
(c) To kill the chickens.
(d) To look at the stars.

2. What does Toby ask Harlan Bell concerning his father Emmett in Part IV?
(a) Why Bell has not tried calling Emmett on the phone.
(b) Why Bell has not put out a warrant for Emmett's arrest.
(c) Why Bell has not questioned Merrion Crace about Emmett's disappearance.
(d) Why Bell has not ridden out to Cumberland to see if Emmett is there.

3. What does Merrion Crace bring as a gift to Toby?
(a) A set of binoculars.
(b) A stereoscope.
(c) A telescope.
(d) A dictionary.

4. What does Josie tell Nora about the beast she saw?
(a) It was small but had a loud shriek.
(b) It looked like a horse, but it also looked like a lion.
(c) It was hairless and bony.
(d) It was huge and it seemed to have wings on its back.

5. Who does Lurie write to in desperation when Burke takes ill for advice?
(a) Doc Almenara.
(b) Shaw.
(c) George.
(d) Jolly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do some of the men break off from the others in Lurie's party in Part III?

2. Who owns the camels in Lurie's company?

3. What does Nora think Emmett's delay in returning home from Cumberland might be due to?

4. How does Mico die?

5. What happens to break Lurie and his own true love apart?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of animals harass Lurie and his party as they try to return a lost girl to her people in Part III?

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

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

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

5. In Part III, how does Shaw die?

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

7. In Part III, what contraption does Ab the chef try to offload on other people the travelers in Lurie's party meet?

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

9. What does Lurie observe that the happiness of a stranger inspires in others?

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

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