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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus go back to Lonesome Dove to get before leaving for Montana?

2. What has Elmira told the townspeople about her former husband?

3. What does Jake do when Lorena tells him about Gus and the fifty-dollar poke she says she turned down?

4. Where do Gus and Call go after finding a new wagon and mules?

5. Where does Gus think Blue Duck is headed with Lorena?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gus understand about the constant talk of Sean's death?

3. What does Elmira decide to do after the whiskey boat?

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

5. What does Wilbarger want from Call? What does he offer?

6. What does Gus notice about the first forty horses that makes him laugh?

7. How does Elmira feel about July? Why?

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

9. What happens to Sean?

10. What does Deets warn Lorena?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are only a few women in the novel, as there were few women in the setting of the novel.

Part 1) What place do women have in the society of the novel? How do the men characters feel towards them? Use examples from the book.

Part 2) Pick one female character from the novel and discuss how she handles the circumstances of her life.

Part 3) Does the character you pick have a fulfilling, satisfying life? How or how not? Cite examples from the book to support your answer. What might your character do differently to improve her life?

Essay Topic 2

Gus thinks about the chain of events that Jake sets into motion by not facing the consequences of his accidental shooting in Arkansas. Pick three or four events from the novel. How are these events based on accident or circumstance? How might things have turned out differently if the events you chose did not happen, or happened differently? How are these accidents related to choices made by one or more characters? Use examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Call and Gus feel that they must hang Jake, even though he is their friend, because he is riding with murderers and horse thieves. Jake feels he is innocent because he has not killed anyone or personally taken horses. However, he does not put up a fight and dies an honorable death.

Part 1) Is Jake guilty as a murderer and horse thief? If not, what crime has he committed? Are his crimes worthy of hanging?

Part 2) How does Jake feel about his sentence? Use examples from the novel to support your answer.

Part 3) How does Call feel about hanging Jake? In what ways does he show he might regret it? How does Gus feel about hanging Jake? Does he have any regrets? How does he handle them? Are Gus and Call influenced by other events in the novel in carrying out Jake's sentence?

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