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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Gus been gone when he returns to Lorena?
(a) A month
(b) Three days
(c) A week
(d) Three hours

2. What does Gus try to get out of his leg?
(a) A porcupine quill
(b) A bullet
(c) A knife
(d) An arrow

3. Where is Blue Duck?
(a) San Antonio
(b) Santa Fe
(c) Denver
(d) Santa Rosa

4. Who finds Gus?
(a) Deets
(b) Custer
(c) Hugh
(d) Call

5. What do Clara's daughters fear Clara will do?
(a) Move to town when Bob dies
(b) Go to Ogallala without them
(c) Scare July off by being too stern
(d) Marry July when Bob dies

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

7. Who tells Newt and the boys to get drunk before seeing the prostitutes?
(a) Call
(b) Gus
(c) Lippy
(d) Dish

8. Why does July go back to Dodge City?
(a) To get a job
(b) To buy another horse
(c) To find a doctor
(d) To write another letter to Peach

9. What does Gus want to give to Lorena after he dies?
(a) The Hat Creek Cattle Company sign
(b) One hundred dollars
(c) His saddle
(d) His half of the cattle partnership

10. What does Call let the men do?
(a) Play cards at the wagon
(b) Go into town for some fun
(c) Help hunt Blue Duck
(d) Have a jug of whiskey

11. Who does Jake hook up with in Fort Worth?
(a) The Suggs brothers
(b) Sally Skull
(c) July Johnson
(d) Frog Lip

12. Where does July live?
(a) In Ogallala
(b) In a tent
(c) In Clara's house
(d) Next to the saddle shed

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

14. How does Blue Duck die?
(a) Call shoots him in anger.
(b) He is hanged for his crimes.
(c) He jumps out of the second story window of the jail.
(d) Blue Duck hangs himself in his cell.

15. Who decides not to visit the prostitutes after all?
(a) Pete
(b) Newt
(c) Ben
(d) Jimmy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus wake to find?

2. What does Clara answer when July first proposes marriage to her?

3. Clara says July is as useful as ______________.

4. Who do Call and Gus NOT bury?

5. Who decides to stay with the herd, even though he has the opportunity to go with the other men?

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