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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Lorena sitting with at the Dry Bean when Dish arrives?
(a) Gus and Deets
(b) Jasper and Xavier
(c) Lippy and Jake
(d) Newt and Pea Eye

2. What unusual food does Po Campo make?
(a) Fried earthworms
(b) Fried grasshoppers
(c) Roadrunner eggs
(d) Honey-covered ants

3. Who brought Lorena to Lonesome Dove?
(a) Bolivar
(b) Tinkersley
(c) Pea Eye
(d) Gus

4. Why does the Hat Creek outfit not have any problems getting the horses from Pedro's camp?
(a) Pedro's men are in Texas, stealing horses.
(b) Pedro's men are all asleep.
(c) The Hat Creek boys are so quiet that no one notices them.
(d) Pedro's men have all been hung as horse thieves.

5. Where does Jake tell Gus that he and Lorena are now headed?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Denver
(c) San Antonio
(d) Lonesome Dove

6. When the wagon mules bolt, who tries to head them off?
(a) Lippy
(b) Newt
(c) Jim Rainey
(d) Gus

7. Where does Jake tell Lorena she belongs?
(a) Gladewater
(b) San Francisco
(c) Lonesome Dove
(d) San Antonio

8. What is the name of the rich Mexican bandit?
(a) Chick
(b) Wilbarger
(c) Sean
(d) Pedro

9. What did Gus give Dish outside the saloon?
(a) Two dollars
(b) A job
(c) A horse
(d) A deck of cards

10. What does Louisa get Roscoe to do when he stops to ask if she has seen July?
(a) Remove stumps from her farmland
(b) Catch a rabbit for dinner
(c) Get married
(d) Stay for a few days

11. What does Gus find to use as cover from the attacking Kiowas?
(a) A hill
(b) A depression in the ground from where a buffalo rolled
(c) An abandoned building
(d) A creek

12. Knowing that Gus is right and Jake will not take Lorena to San Francisco, where does Jake plan to take her instead?
(a) New Mexico
(b) Arkansas
(c) Montana
(d) San Antonio

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

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

15. What does Janey do whenever Roscoe meets anyone on the trail?
(a) She shoots her gun.
(b) She hides.
(c) She gets on his horse with him.
(d) She talks to the strangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louisa want from Roscoe?

2. Maggie told Gus _____ was Newt's father?

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

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

5. What does Jake do when Lorena tells him about Gus and the fifty-dollar poke she says she turned down?

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