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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Nora's mother-in-law's first name?
2. Who is in the picture with Merrion Crace that hangs in the Mercantile?
3. What does Lurie realize about the spirits of the dead for the first time in Part III?
4. What nickname did Emmett call Evelyn?
5. Who had been sheriff before Harlan Bell in Amargo?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Lurie feel after telling the writer much of his life story in Part IV?
2. In Part III, what contraption does Ab the chef try to offload on other people the travelers in Lurie's party meet?
3. What does the doctor who tends to Burke offer Lurie for Burke in Part IV?
4. In Part III, how does Shaw die?
5. Why does Nora begin to worry about the old Indian woman after she does not return for days on end in Part III?
6. In Part III, how does Mico die?
7. In Part III, what does Nora overhear her husband telling her two older sons that hurts her feelings?
8. What does Marshal John Berger tell Lurie when he finally catches up with him in Part IV?
9. In Part III, why does Nora grow uneasy letting the old Indian woman hold Evelyn?
10. Why does Emmett get so upset with Nora for giving a quote to a reporter about the election involving Sheriff Harlan Bell?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the section titled Afternoon, how does Lurie feel when Marshal John Berger finally catches up with him? What seems to surprise both Lurie and Berger about their meeting face-to-face after so much time has passed since their last meeting? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How does the death of Nora's first-born child, Evelyn, affect Nora and Nora's approach to motherhood as she raises her three younger children, all sons? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support it.
Essay Topic 3
How does Nora find out that Sheriff Harlan Bell has betrayed her deepest confidences in the section titled Evening, and what does this revelation do to their relationship? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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