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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bishop Dyer appears at Jane's house, why is he upset?
(a) He wants Withersteen House to be given to the church.
(b) He wants Jane to marry him.
(c) He heard that Jane will raise Fay and he wants her raised as a Mormon.
(d) Jane has cut off the water to Cottonwood.

2. When Venters goes to the cliff dweller's cave the first time, what does he find?
(a) Pans for cooking.
(b) Bows and arrows.
(c) Pottery and instruments for grinding maize.
(d) Guns.

3. When Venters goes into the canyon where he saw the rustlers go, what does he find?
(a) A river.
(b) A waterfall that looks like the end of the trail.
(c) Another canyon with multiple outlets.
(d) Oldring himself in his campsite.

4. What relationship did Bishop Dyer have with Jane's father?
(a) He was a teacher to her father.
(b) He was her father's best friend.
(c) He did not know Jane's father very well.
(d) He was a counselor to her father.

5. When Lassiter tells Jane of his past life, what was he?
(a) He was a farmer.
(b) He was a doctor.
(c) He was a sheriff.
(d) He was a Texas Ranger.

6. After the shooting, Venters moves Bess to a safe location, but returns to the oval valley. Why?
(a) To spy on the rustlers again.
(b) To bring horses back to camp.
(c) To kill a rabbit for food.
(d) To steal a cow for food.

7. After dinner with Lassiter and Jane, Venters says he must leave. Why?
(a) Tull will be looking for him.
(b) He's going to the coral to check on the horses.
(c) He's going home.
(d) He doesn't like to clean up.

8. Who founded the town of Cottonwood?
(a) Bishop Dyer.
(b) Jane's father.
(c) Oldring.
(d) Jane.

9. Lassiter comes to Jane to inform her that he found her white herd. Jane changes and goes to mount her horse. How does she mount her horse?
(a) She mounts him with Lassiter's help.
(b) The horse kneels down for Jane to mount.
(c) She mounts him from a large rock.
(d) She mounts him from her porch.

10. Venters and his dog, Ring, stay in the oval canyon and watch as rustlers enter an opening to another canyon. What does this prove?
(a) The Oval is really shaped like a hand with fingers.
(b) There is water through the opening.
(c) The opening is Oldring's den.
(d) Nothing. The canyons all go in a circle.

11. When Jane hears that her riders left her, she prays. What does she vow after her wrathful prayer?
(a) To marry Tull.
(b) To talk to Tull and reason with him.
(c) To never marry Tull.
(d) To kill Tull.

12. When Venters realizes the Masked Rider is alive, he opens his shirt to look at the wound. What does Venters find?
(a) The wound is large and bleeding badly.
(b) The pale body of a very young boy.
(c) A woman's breast.
(d) The wound is in the stomach.

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

14. At the beginning of the book, Jane waits for the churchmen. What will the churchmen attack Jane for?
(a) Jane doesn't give enough money to the church.
(b) Her right to befriend a Gentile.
(c) Venters is a terrible employee.
(d) Jane is too rich and needs to give some of her land away.

15. Where did Jane get her horses?
(a) Her father got them in Texas.
(b) Her father got them from Nevada Indians.
(c) Venters bought them.
(d) Jane bought them.

Short Answer Questions

1. After taking Lassiter to Milly's grave, what does Jane wonder aloud to Venters?

2. What does Bess tell Venters about the Masked Rider?

3. After the conversation with Blake, Jane feels the world closing in on her and admits to Lassiter that sometimes she want to run away with him. How does Lassiter react?

4. When Jane asks Lassiter to be her rider, what does that mean?

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

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