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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the O'Brien brothers doing when Deets sees them?
(a) Singing
(b) Fighting the Mexican bandits
(c) Riding horses
(d) Sleeping

2. What does Dish suggest to Jasper as they leave the Dry Bean together?
(a) He should go to San Antonio to get a job.
(b) He should hire on with the Hat Creek Cattle Company.
(c) He should kill Jake.
(d) He should find another sporting woman.

3. What does Gus warn Lorena that Jake will do?
(a) Sell her to the Indians
(b) Use the cattle drive to Montana as an excuse to leave her
(c) Offer to take her on the cattle drive instead of going to San Francisco
(d) Go to San Antonio for gambling

4. How does Gus feel about going to Montana?
(a) He would rather go back to Tennessee.
(b) He can go for a spell, and if he does not like it, he can always come back.
(c) It sounds like too much work.
(d) He cannot wait to get started.

5. What does Call do every night, now that he has decided to go to Montana?
(a) He sleeps peacefully on his feather bed.
(b) He rounds up free Mexican cattle.
(c) He goes to the Dry Bean to get drunk.
(d) He visits Maggie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Call let the men stop working early the day Jake returns?

2. What was the name of the livestock business?

3. What does Jake want to borrow from Call?

4. Who does Lorena reject after meeting Jake, starting the rumors that she is out of business?

5. Which kind of customer does Lorena prefer?

(see the answer key)

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