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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After making the ivory delivery, what does Tristan agree to transport to San Francisco?
(a) Opium.
(b) Guns.
(c) Seafood.
(d) Cigarettes.

2. Phillip talks philosophically about what?
(a) What happens when someone commits adultery.
(b) What educational approach is the most effective.
(c) What is best for Mexico.
(d) What happens when a person's father dies.

3. Nordstrom has insomnia and dances without music for what reason?
(a) He does not like music.
(b) He does not want to bother his neighbors.
(c) To avoid waking Phillip and Sonia.
(d) He enjoys dancing to silence.

4. Who does Ludlow insist on tutoring?
(a) His ranch foreman's daughter, Isabel Two.
(b) His daughter, Isabel Two.
(c) His friend, Isabel Two.
(d) His niece, Isabel Two.

5. What poet does Isabel invite for dinner?
(a) John Ashbery.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Amy Lowell.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

6. Tristan buys whiskey to take home and sell to whom?
(a) Other ranchers.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Other sailors.
(d) His family.

7. The brothers and their father's Native American friend stop at a tavern where Tristan beats the owner for what reason?
(a) His prejudice against One Heart.
(b) His prejudice against Sitting Bull.
(c) His prejudice against Crazy Horse.
(d) His prejudice against One Stab.

8. Tristan finally tells Susannah of his plans to meet his grandfather where?
(a) In Haiti.
(b) In Jamaica.
(c) In Puerto Rico.
(d) In Havana.

9. Nordstrom walks from Brookline to Cambridge for what?
(a) To see a friend.
(b) His appointment with the psychiatrist.
(c) To meet his daughter.
(d) To go to a dance concert.

10. After the graduation reception, Nordstrom tries to give Sonia what?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $15,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $1,000.

11. Nordstrom goes to the ceremony and reception for Sonia's college graduation and is somehow surprised about what?
(a) Not knowing anyone.
(b) To see so many of Sonia's friends.
(c) To see Laura.
(d) Being sad at the party.

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

13. Who are the three brothers?
(a) Albert, Tyler, and Seth.
(b) Aaron, Timothy, and Stephen.
(c) Allan, Turner, and Steven.
(d) Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel.

14. What habit does Nordstrom disclose?
(a) Staring at the sea.
(b) Dancing alone.
(c) Being preoccupied with sex.
(d) Cooking.

15. Nordstrom tells Laura, Sonia, and Phillip that he plans to cash in his trip tickets and do what?
(a) Go to cooking school.
(b) Find a new job.
(c) Go on a vacation.
(d) Get remarried.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sarah respond when Nordstrom makes a counter offer?

2. Susannah's father, Arthur, comes to Montana for a sporting expedition and buys what as a wedding present?

3. How far does Tristan carry Isabel Two?

4. What does Tristan's ship, as its captain, escape?

5. The honyocker's daughter leaves with what?

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