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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 72-74.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dan Suggs offer Jake a position on their crew when Jake is ready to leave Dallas?
(a) Because Jake let Blue Duck take Lorena
(b) Because he knows Jake was once a Texas Ranger
(c) Because of Jake's reputation as a bank robber
(d) Because of Jake's reputation for killing the dentist in Fort Smith

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

3. Gus sees a cloud approaching. What does it turn out to be?
(a) Wilbarger's cattle drive
(b) Indians
(c) A dust storm
(d) A swarm of grasshoppers

4. How many stragglers does Newt ride past in the dust?
(a) Thirty-five head
(b) Four thousand head
(c) Twenty-six hundred head
(d) Eighteen hundred head

5. Gus's sign told customers "We don't _______"?
(a) Rent Cattle
(b) Rent pigs
(c) Sell horses
(d) Steal horses

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jake hook up with in Fort Worth?

2. What does Janey offer to do when she tells Roscoe that bandits are about to ambush them?

3. Who ropes the second horse for the O'Brien brothers?

4. Where does Gus think Blue Duck is headed with Lorena?

5. Who rides up while Gus is bathing in the river in Lorena and Jake's camp?

(see the answer key)

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