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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does Call hire in Miles City?
(a) The sheriff
(b) Joseph Mobley
(c) The livery man
(d) Hugh Auld
2. What troubles Deets about the tracks he finds leading away from the fight with Wilbarger?
(a) The tracks lead to the Trail of Tears.
(b) The tracks split up, and he does not know which to follow.
(c) One of the horses belongs to Blue Duck.
(d) One of the horses belongs to Jake.
3. Who tells Newt and the boys to get drunk before seeing the prostitutes?
(a) Lippy
(b) Gus
(c) Call
(d) Dish
4. Where does July live?
(a) In a tent
(b) Next to the saddle shed
(c) In Ogallala
(d) In Clara's house
5. Who is at Clara's ranch when Call arrives?
(a) Dish
(b) Soupy
(c) Pea Eye
(d) Newt
6. Who does Jake hook up with in Fort Worth?
(a) Frog Lip
(b) The Suggs brothers
(c) Sally Skull
(d) July Johnson
7. What do the boys do differently to cross the Canadian?
(a) Ride naked to keep their clothes dry
(b) Switch positions so the most experienced hands are at the rear
(c) Make floatation devices to float across the river
(d) Pack mud all over their skin to deter the snakes
8. Where do Pea Eye and Gus find shelter from the Indians?
(a) A deserted building
(b) Behind a dead horse
(c) A creek
(d) A buffalo depression in the grass
9. What does Gus bring back for Lorena?
(a) A new horse
(b) A steak dinner and whiskey
(c) Candy
(d) A comb, a mirror, and brushes
10. What does Gus wake to find?
(a) Both of his legs gone
(b) The doctor refusing to amputate
(c) One of his legs gone
(d) Both legs have gangrene
11. Where does July finally see people after so many days?
(a) The Republican River
(b) Clara's ranch
(c) Ogallala
(d) The Hat Creek cattle drive
12. Who gets knocked unconscious by a soldier?
(a) Call
(b) Newt
(c) Ben
(d) Dish
13. When Newt is finally able to see again, what does he find?
(a) The river is so flooded, that they will not be able to cross for days.
(b) There is no water for miles.
(c) He is alone with some cattle, the main herd nowhere in sight.
(d) Call and Gus are fighting Indians.
14. What does Newt name the horse Clara gives him?
(a) Sugar
(b) Mouse
(c) Ben
(d) Candy
15. Who do Gus and Call meet before getting to Clara's?
(a) Indians
(b) Soldiers
(c) Farmers
(d) Buffalo hunters
Short Answer Questions
1. What is wrong with Deets?
2. What does Gus do when they reach Ogallala?
3. How does Blue Duck die?
4. What happened to Po Campo's sons?
5. What does Call tell Newt before he leaves to take Gus's body back to Texas?
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