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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 22-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assignment in the cattle drive goes to Dish, the top hand?
(a) Back up
(b) Right Point
(c) The drags
(d) Scouting nightly bed and water for the herd

2. What does Lorena want Jake to do with the fifty dollars?
(a) Get her some new clothes
(b) Buy a train ticket to San Francisco
(c) Buy her a good horse
(d) Gamble and turn it into one hundred dollars

3. Who goes back to Lonesome Dove with the first herd of horses?
(a) Call, Pea Eye, and Newt
(b) Sean and Allen O'Brien
(c) Gus, Call, and Pea Eye
(d) Jake, Dish and Deets

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

5. Call's hiring spree has brought the Dry Bean more business than ever. However, what do Lippy and Xavier realize will happen?
(a) One "out of business" sporting woman is not enough for the cowboys.
(b) They will not have enough liquor for everyone without a trip to San Antonio.
(c) When the crew leaves for Montana, Lonesome Dove will become a ghost town.
(d) The railroad will come next.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the rich Mexican bandit?

2. Where does Jake tell Lorena she belongs?

3. Who was Lorena with when Dish goes to see her?

4. Who ropes the first horse for the O'Brien brothers?

5. Gus's sign told customers "We don't _______"?

(see the answer key)

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