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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 tested out the phone line at the Worther Hotel?
(a) Merrion Crace and Emmett Lark.
(b) Merrion Crace and Nora Lark.
(c) Harlan Bell and Nora Lark.
(d) Walton Pickney and Merrion Crace.

2. Where does Nora tell the Doc Emmett is delayed?
(a) Saratoga.
(b) Ash River.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Cumberland.

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

4. How does Doc Almenara dress?
(a) As if he thinks Amargo is a boomtown.
(b) As if he is always going to a funeral.
(c) Like a servant.
(d) Like a cowboy.

5. What is the name of the contraption that Ab wants to get rid of?
(a) The Wrecking Ball.
(b) The Little Giant.
(c) The Skein.
(d) The Flint.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lurie realize about the spirits of the dead for the first time in Part III?

2. Who eventually leads Lurie back to Jolly?

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

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

5. What does Nora try to use to appease her regular visitor to the house shortly after Evelyn is born?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part III, how does Shaw die?

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

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

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

5. In Part III, how does Mico die?

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

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

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

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

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

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