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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Venters comes from Surprise Valley, where do he and Lassiter go together?
(a) To sit by the water.
(b) Into Cottonwoods.
(c) To the sage.
(d) To get a stiff drink.

2. In the end, what does Venters do to Oldring?
(a) He kills him.
(b) He shares a drink with him.
(c) He tells him that he loves Bess.
(d) He takes him to Surprise Valley.

3. In Surprise Valley, what does Venters confess to Lassiter?
(a) That he is leaving Bess.
(b) That Bess is Oldring's sister.
(c) That Bess is an evil woman.
(d) That he loves Bess.

4. What does Venters say touched him in Surprise Valley?
(a) Bess.
(b) The spirit of the cliff dwellers.
(c) God.
(d) The spirit of the valley.

5. Why has Mrs. Larkin always been afraid to give her daughter to Jane?
(a) She thinks her daughter will not go willingly.
(b) She is afraid Jane would raise her as a Mormon.
(c) She thinks Jane would kidnap her daughter.
(d) She believes Jane would be mean to her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the opening to Oldring's den?

2. Lassiter takes Jane to a lookout over her white herd and tells her the herd is moving fast. Why?

3. What does Mary Brandt, Janes friend, urge her to do when Jane visits her?

4. When Jane tells Blake to go to the sage and get all her horses, what information does Blake have?

5. When Lassiter appears, how do Tull's men know that he is a gunman?

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