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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. Who gets shot in Lurie's group during the fight at the river?
(a) Lurie and Jolly.
(b) Mico and Jolly.
(c) Shaw and Mico.
(d) Jolly and Shaw.

2. 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 look at the stars.
(d) To kill the chickens.

3. What does Lurie tell Marshal John Berger when Berger catches up with him in Part IV?
(a) He challenges him to a duel.
(b) He tells him he will run and Berger can not catch him.
(c) He tells him to leave Gabriela alone.
(d) He insists he is not the man Berger is looking for.

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

5. Who is Jolly's camel?
(a) Mahmoud.
(b) Yawel.
(c) Abdul.
(d) Saleh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sheriff Harlan Bell say to Nora when she tells him about the brick that was thrown through the window of The Sentinel?

3. Which winter was a terribly brutal one in Amargo?

4. What does Jolly propose to Lurie after Shaw and Mico die?

5. What does Merrion Crace cook at Nora's house when he comes to visit?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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