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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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 cries.
(d) He takes the fifty dollars.

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

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

8. How does Gus feel about going to Montana?
(a) He would rather go back to Tennessee.
(b) He can go for a spell, and if he does not like it, he can always come back.
(c) He cannot wait to get started.
(d) It sounds like too much work.

9. What was the name of Call's horse?
(a) Bolivar
(b) Maggie
(c) Mouse
(d) Hell Bitch

10. What does Jake insist on if they are going to travel with the herd?
(a) They must make their own camp instead of camping with the cowboys.
(b) She cannot offer her services to the cowboys.
(c) She must help cook the meals along the way.
(d) They must stop in San Antonio for gambling.

11. Maggie told Gus _____ was Newt's father?
(a) Pea Eye
(b) Call
(c) Jake
(d) Gus

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

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

14. Who decides to quit and return to Lonesome Dove?
(a) Lippy
(b) Jim Rainey
(c) Dish
(d) Bolivar

15. When Newt walks back to the wagon, who does he see first?
(a) Pea Eye
(b) Call
(c) Jake
(d) Po Campo

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the livestock business?

2. What is the name of Roscoe's horse?

3. What does Call do every night, now that he has decided to go to Montana?

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

5. When the wagon mules bolt, who tries to head them off?

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