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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Venters takes Bess to Surprise Valley, she awakens and think she hears a waterfall. What is she really hearing?
(a) Shooting in the distance.
(b) The stream running through the valley.
(c) The wind in the valley.
(d) Ancient voices.

2. How may days does Venters tell Bess that she must wait for him to return from Cottonwood before she knows he is dead?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

3. What is making the white herd move so quickly?
(a) Someone on the ridge is shooting at them.
(b) Someone on the ridge is throwing rocks at them.
(c) Someone on another ridge is spooking them with a white sheet.
(d) Someone on the ridge is yelling.

4. Bess and Venters return to the cliff dwellings and find something more. What?
(a) Metal instruments for farming.
(b) A secret hiding place inside the caves.
(c) Human bone.
(d) Stored food.

5. While Venters is in Surprise Valley, Jane brings a guest into her home. Who?
(a) Lassiter.
(b) Bishop Dyer.
(c) Fay alone.
(d) Fay and her sick mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cattle are in the red herd?

2. What crime does Tull accuse Venters of?

3. After dinner, Venters goes to the grove to sleep. Who does he see riding through?

4. After his conversation with Jane, Venters is going to tell someone that they have broken their vow. Who?

5. What does Venters discover about Balancing Rock?

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