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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who rescues Roscoe from the bandits?
(a) Gus
(b) July
(c) Wilbarger
(d) Janey

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

5. What does Jake think about doing with Lorena?
(a) Making her become a prostitute again
(b) Leaving her in a town somewhere
(c) Marrying her
(d) Selling her to the Indians

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

7. How did Elmira actually leave?
(a) She took the train.
(b) She left on the whiskey boat.
(c) She took a stagecoach.
(d) She rode Memphis out of town at night.

8. Who ropes the second horse for the O'Brien brothers?
(a) Deets
(b) Newt
(c) Call
(d) Dish

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

10. Where do Gus and Call plan to look for a new cook?
(a) Austin
(b) Fort Worth
(c) St. Louis
(d) Ogallala

11. What does Deets use to help Jake?
(a) The needle he uses to repair his pants
(b) A doctor
(c) His quirt
(d) A bottle of whiskey

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

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

14. Who returned during breakfast?
(a) Dish Bogget and Lippy
(b) Pea Eye and Newt
(c) July Johnson and Roscoe
(d) Deets and Jake Spoon

15. The morning after the storm, who is missing?
(a) Gus
(b) Lippy
(c) Allen
(d) Newt

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gus stop on the way to find a cook, tears on his cheeks?

2. What assignment in the cattle drive goes to Dish, the top hand?

3. What bothers Monkey John about Lorena?

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

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

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