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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lorena tell Jake about gambling?
(a) That she hopes he never comes back
(b) That she will come with him
(c) That it is against her religion and he must quit
(d) That he should go ahead while she stays in camp

3. Who does Roscoe pick up on the way to find July?
(a) Blue Duck
(b) Janey
(c) Joe
(d) Louisa

4. What does Gus offer for "a poke" regardless of whether Lorena wins at cutting the cards or not?
(a) Fifty dollars
(b) A new dress
(c) Ten dollars
(d) To take her to San Francisco

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

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

7. What does Xavier NOT offer Lorena to be with her and convince her not to go with Jake?
(a) All of the money in his pockets, nearly one hundred dollars
(b) To marry her
(c) To tell Gus
(d) To take her to Galveston, take a boat to California, and buy a restaurant

8. What does Jake do when Lorena refuses to change her plans?
(a) He slaps her.
(b) He rides away.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He apologizes.

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

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

11. Who rides up while Gus is bathing in the river in Lorena and Jake's camp?
(a) Jake
(b) Deets
(c) Willie Montgomery
(d) Blue Duck

12. Which of Blue Duck's men want to help Lorena?
(a) Monkey John
(b) Dog Face
(c) Ermoke
(d) Kiowa

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

14. What does Blue Duck want his men to do?
(a) Kill Gus
(b) Steal some horses
(c) Kill some buffalo
(d) Leave him alone

15. What does Dish suggest to Jasper as they leave the Dry Bean together?
(a) He should find another sporting woman.
(b) He should go to San Antonio to get a job.
(c) He should kill Jake.
(d) He should hire on with the Hat Creek Cattle Company.

Short Answer Questions

1. The morning after the storm, who is missing?

2. Who decides to quit and return to Lonesome Dove?

3. Who did Jake Spoon kill?

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

5. Who sings a mournful ballad to the cattle?

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