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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nordstrom do when Berto comes in?
(a) He shoots him.
(b) He grabs Berto and throws him out the window.
(c) He hides.
(d) He stabs him.

2. How are Tristan and Susannah caught embracing?
(a) Alfred has someone following her.
(b) Alfred has gone looking for Tristan.
(c) Susannah embraces Tristan in public.
(d) They embrace in front of Alfred.

3. Alfred returns home to Washington DC, where Susannah is suffering from what?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) A deep depression.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Influenza.

4. Why do the brothers ride off to Canada?
(a) To visit relatives.
(b) To join the Great War.
(c) To go hunting.
(d) To escape the war.

5. Nordstrom takes Sonia and Philip to see who?
(a) Baryshnikov.
(b) Ailey.
(c) Graham.
(d) Robbins.

6. Nordstrom's financial adviser insists that Nordstrom see who?
(a) A friend.
(b) Laura.
(c) Sonia.
(d) A psychiatrist.

7. Sonia asks Nordstrom to visit her where?
(a) In Italy.
(b) In Australia.
(c) In France.
(d) In China.

8. What happens after Ludlow sends Decker to Helena for supplies?
(a) One Stab returns home.
(b) A US Marshall comes to ask about Decker.
(c) Ludlow receives a letter from his wife.
(d) Ludlow hears that his son died.

9. He writes in his journal, thinking again about what?
(a) His daughter.
(b) Quitting and giving away all his money.
(c) Laura.
(d) Becoming a cook.

10. Tristan sends a picture of himself with what to One Stab?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A zebra.
(c) An Arabian stallion.
(d) A dead rhinoceros.

11. When the psychiatrist asks what interests him, how does Nordstrom answer?
(a) He wants to be a good father like his own father.
(b) He is interested in getting to know his daughter.
(c) He wants to be a cook.
(d) He wants to look things over like his father did.

12. What does Tristan's ship, as its captain, escape?
(a) A French battle ship.
(b) An American cruise ship.
(c) A German destroyer.
(d) A British war ship.

13. What happens when the officers shoot their rifles into the air aimlessly?
(a) One bullet ricochets and injures Tristan.
(b) One bullet ricochets and injures One Stab.
(c) One bullet ricochets and injures Isabel Two.
(d) One bullet ricochets and kills Isabel Two.

14. He walks home the next morning and is upset by seeing what?
(a) No one on the street.
(b) An old black man in a puddle of vomit and a diseased tree.
(c) Homeless people sleeping in a tent.
(d) Trash all over the road.

15. How does Susannah feel about Tristan leaving?
(a) Worried.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tristan directs his grief into what?

2. Nordstrom spends the night doing what?

3. Their father's Cheyenne friend, ____________, guides the brothers through the Montana wilderness.

4. Who are the three brothers?

5. How far does Tristan carry Isabel Two?

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