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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. What does Deets use to help Jake?
(a) His quirt
(b) A doctor
(c) The needle he uses to repair his pants
(d) A bottle of whiskey

2. Who does Roscoe pick up on the way to find July?
(a) Louisa
(b) Joe
(c) Blue Duck
(d) Janey

3. With whom does Newt bond, becoming fast friends?
(a) Jake Spoon
(b) Gus McCrae
(c) Sean O'Brien
(d) Woodrow Call

4. How does Gus feel about going to Montana?
(a) He cannot wait to get started.
(b) He can go for a spell, and if he does not like it, he can always come back.
(c) He would rather go back to Tennessee.
(d) It sounds like too much work.

5. What does Call think has happened to Newt?
(a) Blue Duck took him.
(b) He is lost.
(c) Jake shot him.
(d) He has been trampled in the stampede.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roscoe suggest has happened to Elmira?

2. What does Gus warn Lorena that Jake will do?

3. What does Lorena tell Jake about gambling?

4. Knowing that Gus is right and Jake will not take Lorena to San Francisco, where does Jake plan to take her instead?

5. What does Blue Duck do with Lorena when the men fail to kill Gus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Blue Duck show so little interest in Lorena?

3. How does Gus teach the bartender to respect him and Call?

4. Not long after Sean's death there is another accident, though not fatal this time. What happens?

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

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

7. What happens to Lorena and Jake during the storm?

8. What happens to Sean?

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

10. What does Gus want to know about July as they go to Blue Duck's camp?

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