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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Martin?
(a) He gets scarlet fever.
(b) He crawls down the stairs and falls.
(c) He develops a cough and fever.
(d) He dies.

2. 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

3. Who does Call hire in Miles City?
(a) Hugh Auld
(b) The livery man
(c) The sheriff
(d) Joseph Mobley

4. What does Newt name the horse Clara gives him?
(a) Ben
(b) Sugar
(c) Candy
(d) Mouse

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

6. What does Gus bring back for Lorena?
(a) A steak dinner and whiskey
(b) Candy
(c) A new horse
(d) A comb, a mirror, and brushes

7. What treat does Po Campo make the men after they return from town?
(a) Plover eggs
(b) Fried grasshoppers
(c) Sourdough biscuits
(d) Dewberry cobbler

8. What does Lorena decide?
(a) To go to San Francisco on her own
(b) To marry Dish
(c) To make Gus forget about Clara
(d) That she will stay in Ogallala

9. What is wrong with Deets?
(a) He is troubled by the lack of water.
(b) He is troubled by the Indians.
(c) He is in love with Lorena.
(d) He is homesick.

10. Who stops Call from beating the soldier to death?
(a) Dish
(b) Newt
(c) Gus
(d) DIxon

11. Who is Gus surprised to see at Clara's?
(a) Sally
(b) Cholo
(c) Bob
(d) July

12. What do the boys do differently to cross the Canadian?
(a) Ride naked to keep their clothes dry
(b) Pack mud all over their skin to deter the snakes
(c) Switch positions so the most experienced hands are at the rear
(d) Make floatation devices to float across the river

13. What happens to Elmira the night she stays with Clara?
(a) She dies.
(b) She delivers her baby.
(c) She gives in to Luke.
(d) She sleeps soundly.

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

15. Where does Clara want Call to bury Gus?
(a) Next to her boys
(b) In Clara's orchard
(c) Where they had the picnic the last time she saw Gus
(d) In Ogallala

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus tell Newt while Call carves the sign for Deets?

2. What does Gus wake to find?

3. Who arrives at Clara's ranch first?

4. What does Clara do when she sees Gus?

5. What gets stolen from the ranch?

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