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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 62-65.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the boys do differently to cross the Canadian?
(a) Switch positions so the most experienced hands are at the rear
(b) Ride naked to keep their clothes dry
(c) Make floatation devices to float across the river
(d) Pack mud all over their skin to deter the snakes

2. Who sings a mournful ballad to the cattle?
(a) Needle
(b) Sean
(c) Soupy
(d) Newt

3. What does Gus tell Call about the cattle drive?
(a) They should sell the cattle to Wilbarger.
(b) He is leaving with Lorena and will not help anymore.
(c) He will ride with them as far as Nebraska.
(d) They should go back to Lonesome Dove before more people die.

4. How many cattle in all does Gus count?
(a) Four thousand head
(b) Twenty-six hundred head
(c) Thirty five head
(d) Eighteen hundred head

5. Who tells July that Jake is coming on a cattle drive?
(a) Gus
(b) Roscoe
(c) Dee Boot
(d) Wilbarger

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jake do when Lorena refuses to change her plans?

2. Who rescues Roscoe from the bandits?

3. Where does Elmira reluctantly agree to go with two of the whiskey traders?

4. What does Louisa want from Roscoe?

5. Who is the only whiskey trader who talks to Elmira?

(see the answer key)

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