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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Gus think Blue Duck is headed with Lorena?
(a) Ogallala
(b) Adobe Walls
(c) The Valley of Tears
(d) San Francisco

2. What causes Jake's thumb to get infected?
(a) A mesquite thorn
(b) A splinter
(c) A cactus thorn
(d) A scorpion sting

3. What does Gus realize when Jake comes into the camp?
(a) That Jake lost all his money gambling
(b) That Blue Duck killed Lorena
(c) That Jake has killed someone else
(d) That Blue Duck stole Lorena

4. What assignment in the cattle drive goes to Deets?
(a) Scouting nightly bed and water for the herd
(b) Right Point
(c) Back up
(d) The drags

5. How did Elmira actually leave?
(a) She rode Memphis out of town at night.
(b) She left on the whiskey boat.
(c) She took the train.
(d) She took a stagecoach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the rich Mexican bandit?

2. What does Lorena want Jake to do with the fifty dollars?

3. Who ropes the first horse for the O'Brien brothers?

4. What does Jake insist on if they are going to travel with the herd?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What bothers Call about the first four boys he hires, who are all younger than eighteen?

2. What does Deets warn Lorena?

3. How does Jake respond when Gus comes into Jake and Lorena's camp?

4. What did Jake Spoon talk about at breakfast that interested Call and Gus?

5. Why does the bartender at the bar in San Antonio make Gus so mad?

6. Why is Gus not trying to hide the horses they brought back from Mexico?

7. Why does Gus send Newt to watch Lorena, instead of Dish?

8. Captain Call was restless. What did he want to do?

9. What does Jake tell Call about he and Lorena tagging along the herd?

10. How does Wilbarger sway Call to make a decision about his restlessness?

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