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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tristan and Susannah marry before Samuel's funeral against whose wishes?
(a) His father's wishes.
(b) Her mother's wishes.
(c) His own wishes.
(d) His mother's wishes.

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

3. How does Alfred end up in the hospital?
(a) He catches influenza.
(b) He injures his knee and back.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He faints.

4. He listens to the radio and longs to do what?
(a) Go to the Caribbean.
(b) Dance.
(c) See his daughter.
(d) Be with his wife.

5. What does Tristan do after he rushes to find Samuel?
(a) He cannot find Samuel.
(b) He cuts out his heart.
(c) He takes Samuel's body home.
(d) He sends Samuel back to Harvard.

6. The brothers' father, Ludlow, regrets what?
(a) Letting Samuel go to war instead of sending him back to Harvard.
(b) Letting his Native American friend risk his life.
(c) Letting his sons go hunting without him.
(d) Letting his sons go to war instead of sending them back to Harvard.

7. What does Nordstrom ask Phillip's friend, the Sephard, to arrange?
(a) An engagement party for Sonia.
(b) A dinner for Laura.
(c) A concert for Sonia.
(d) A graduation party for Sonia.

8. What alerts Nordstrom to Berto's entrance?
(a) He hears his spoon and beer can alarm.
(b) He hears his door open.
(c) He hears Berto's voice.
(d) He see Berto in the mirror.

9. Nordstrom tells the psychiatrist that he wants to be like who?
(a) Robin Hood.
(b) Peter Pan.
(c) King Arthur.
(d) Martin Luther.

10. How far does Tristan carry Isabel Two?
(a) For a mile.
(b) For miles.
(c) For a few feet.
(d) For a block.

11. Tristan directs his grief into what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) The effort of breaking a difficult young stallion.
(c) His marriage to Susannah.
(d) The repairs of the farmhouse.

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

13. Susannah's father, Arthur, comes to Montana for a sporting expedition and buys what as a wedding present?
(a) The neighboring ranch.
(b) A house in town.
(c) New stallions.
(d) A herd of horses.

14. What does the grief of Samuel's death do to Ludlow?
(a) It depresses him.
(b) It almost kills him.
(c) It makes him ill.
(d) It ages him overnight.

15. Tristan smuggles whiskey through the wilderness and makes a __________ profit.
(a) Small.
(b) Decent.
(c) Mediocre.
(d) Large.

Short Answer Questions

1. Captain Ludlow makes Tristan cooperate with the British war mission for what reason?

2. Phillip talks philosophically about what?

3. Nordstrom takes Sonia and Philip to see who?

4. What happens when Tristan tries to calm Susannah?

5. Nordstrom tells Laura, Sonia, and Phillip that he plans to cash in his trip tickets and do what?

(see the answer keys)

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