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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. Tristan comes down with dysentery in dangerous seas and barely escapes with both his life and the ship. His fevers make him delirious. He stands on the bowspirit and hallucinates what?
(a) That he sees his mother and brothers.
(b) That he sees Susannah.
(c) That he sees both Samuel and Susannah.
(d) That he sees Isabel Two.

2. Nordstrom meets with Sonia and the broker and convinces them of his convictions by giving money to who?
(a) The National Audubon Society.
(b) The American Red Cross.
(c) The Sierra Club.
(d) The American Diabetes Association.

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

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

5. In the morning, Nordstrom gets ready to meet with Sarah and adds what to his boot?
(a) A screw driver.
(b) A gun.
(c) A straight razor.
(d) A cell phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. The honyocker's daughter leaves with what?

2. How does Alfred end up in the hospital?

3. What habit does Nordstrom disclose?

4. Alfred returns home to Washington DC, where Susannah is suffering from what?

5. What poet does Isabel invite for dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place when most of the people have left the dinner?

2. What happens once Alfred arrives?

3. Why does Ludlow send One Stab to Helena?

4. How does Isabel Two die?

5. How does this story end?

6. What does Nordstrom discuss with his psychiatrist?

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

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

9. What does does Nordstrom do on his way to his appointment with the psychiatrist?

10. What happens when Tristan comes down with dysentery?

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