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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. They stop for the night at a homesteader's home where Samuel does what?
(a) Becomes friends with the homesteader.
(b) Takes an interest in the man's daughter.
(c) Helps with the farming.
(d) Meets his future wife.

2. While Sarah is in the bathroom, what does Nordstrom do?
(a) He calls the police.
(b) He runs out of the hotel room.
(c) He looks out the window.
(d) He takes a gun from her purse and puts it under his mattress.

3. For what is Susannah waiting that helps her improve again?
(a) Winter, when she will be with Tristan again.
(b) The birth of a child.
(c) Alfred's return in the spring.
(d) Spring, when she will be with Tristan again.

4. What happens when Tristan tries to calm Susannah?
(a) He ends up upsetting her.
(b) He ends up worrying her.
(c) He ends up giving her false hope again.
(d) He ends up angering her.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What habit does Nordstrom disclose?

2. He listens to the radio and longs to do what?

3. Sonia asks Nordstrom to visit her where?

4. Nordstrom's financial adviser insists that Nordstrom see who?

5. One Stab accompanies Tristan to the train station and gives Tristan what, which Tristan keeps until his death at age eighty-four?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tristan do during the six years he spends at sea?

2. What does Nordstrom do with his money?

3. What does Phillip discuss philosophically that seems to upset Nordstrom?

4. What happens once Alfred arrives?

5. What takes place at the meeting between Nordstrom, Sarah, and Slats?

6. How does Alfred feel about Susannah? Does she feel the same in return?

7. How does Tristan play a role in Susannah's suicide?

8. What does Tristan do to two of the Irishmen that are out to kill him?

9. What does Nordstrom write in his diary?

10. How does this story end?

(see the answer keys)

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