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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dan Suggs offer Jake a position on their crew when Jake is ready to leave Dallas?
(a) Because Jake let Blue Duck take Lorena
(b) Because he knows Jake was once a Texas Ranger
(c) Because of Jake's reputation for killing the dentist in Fort Smith
(d) Because of Jake's reputation as a bank robber

2. What does Elmira risk on her journey?
(a) Sioux
(b) Tornadoes
(c) A draught
(d) Buffalo hunters

3. What does Jake give Newt?
(a) His horse
(b) His gun
(c) His watch
(d) His name

4. What does Clara want?
(a) To keep Martin
(b) For July to take Martin back to Arkansas
(c) To marry July
(d) For July to go after Elmira

5. What does Gus plant to do with Lorena when they get to Clara's?
(a) He plans to introduce her properly.
(b) He plans for her to wait in the tent.
(c) He plans to leave her in Ogallala.
(d) He plans to marry Lorena.

6. What do the Suggs brothers have a reputation for being around Fort Worth?
(a) Drunks
(b) Gamblers
(c) Murderers
(d) Horse thieves

7. What gets stolen from the ranch?
(a) Supplies
(b) Tools
(c) Fifteen horses
(d) One hundred cattle

8. Who turns out to be the thief?
(a) A man and a boy
(b) A starving group of Indians
(c) A rouge bunch of Indians
(d) A Montana outlaw

9. Where does Elmira want to go?
(a) Montana
(b) Ogallala
(c) Dodge City
(d) St. Louis

10. Gus sees a cloud approaching. What does it turn out to be?
(a) Wilbarger's cattle drive
(b) Indians
(c) A swarm of grasshoppers
(d) A dust storm

11. What river does the herd finally find after the sandstorm?
(a) Salt Creek
(b) Yellowstone
(c) Colorado
(d) Powder River

12. What does Gus wake to find?
(a) The doctor refusing to amputate
(b) Both legs have gangrene
(c) One of his legs gone
(d) Both of his legs gone

13. Who arrives at Clara's ranch first?
(a) Martin
(b) Elmira, Big Zwey, and Luke
(c) Gus
(d) July Johnson

14. What is missing in Lonesome Dove when Call returns?
(a) The mercantile store
(b) The Hat Creek Cattle Company ranch
(c) The Dry Bean
(d) The Raineys

15. Who helps ease Newt's mind about Jake?
(a) Call
(b) Gus
(c) Dish
(d) Deets

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gus invite Newt to have coffee with him and Lorena?

2. Who do Call and Gus NOT bury?

3. Who is at Clara's ranch when Call arrives?

4. Why does Call go into Denver?

5. What treat does Po Campo make the men after they return from town?

(see the answer keys)

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