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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 84-86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jake do when Lorena tells him about Gus and the fifty-dollar poke she says she turned down?
(a) He shoots Gus.
(b) He slaps her.
(c) He takes the fifty dollars.
(d) He cries.

2. Why did Call let the men stop working early the day Jake returns?
(a) It is a holiday.
(b) He wants to get drunk with Jake.
(c) He wants them to rest before going to Mexico for the night to round up horses.
(d) He wants them to dig a well the next day.

3. Why does Gus invite Newt to have coffee with him and Lorena?
(a) Lorena was starting to act friendly.
(b) Gus wants to talk to Newt about Jake.
(c) Gus wants to tell Newt that Call is his father.
(d) Newt's horse, Mouse, had to be shot and Gus wants to console him

4. Why does Dan kill the farmers?
(a) They owe him money.
(b) He hates immigrants.
(c) They killed his brother.
(d) He says he hates sodbusters.

5. What is wrong with Deets?
(a) He is in love with Lorena.
(b) He is troubled by the lack of water.
(c) He is homesick.
(d) He is troubled by the Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jake forget to do before the storm?

2. Why does July go back to Dodge City?

3. What do the Suggs brothers have a reputation for being around Fort Worth?

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

5. What did Call give Newt in honor of his first trip to Mexico to round up livestock?

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