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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Gus and Call go after finding a new wagon and mules?
(a) Back to the herd
(b) Austin
(c) The Buckhorn saloon
(d) Clara's Orchard

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

3. What do Peach and Charlie Barnes want Roscoe to do, once they discover Elmira is gone?
(a) They want him to go after July to tell him his wife is missing.
(b) They want him to wait for July to come home to tell him the bad news.
(c) They want him to send July a telegram.
(d) They want him to quit as deputy.

4. What did Call give Newt in honor of his first trip to Mexico to round up livestock?
(a) The true story of his father
(b) A horse
(c) A gun and holster
(d) A watch

5. What does Louisa want from Roscoe?
(a) To help her find her husband
(b) A child
(c) To let her come with him
(d) To marry her and help with the farm

6. Who is the only whiskey trader who talks to Elmira?
(a) Jake
(b) Roscoe
(c) Charlie
(d) Fowler

7. Who ropes the first horse for the O'Brien brothers?
(a) Gus
(b) Newt
(c) Pea Eye
(d) Dish

8. What river do Lorena and Jake reach before the herd?
(a) Nueces River
(b) Mississippi River
(c) Red River
(d) Yellowstone River

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

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

11. What wakes Newt from dozing when he was supposed to be watching Lorena?
(a) Lorena's screams
(b) A cattle stampede
(c) Gunfire
(d) Po Campo

12. Where does Gus think Blue Duck is headed with Lorena?
(a) Adobe Walls
(b) Ogallala
(c) The Valley of Tears
(d) San Francisco

13. 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) San Antonio
(d) Montana

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Jake's thumb to get infected?

2. What does Jake do when Lorena refuses to change her plans?

3. What does Janey do whenever Roscoe meets anyone on the trail?

4. Where is Jake when Gus comes into the Dry Bean and finds Lorena alone?

5. What does Call think has happened to Newt?

(see the answer keys)

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