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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Jane pay Blake when he returns to work for her?
(a) She is not able to pay him.
(b) She gives him food and a place to sleep.
(c) She pays him in gold.
(d) She pays him in cash.

3. 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) Jane is too rich and needs to give some of her land away.
(c) Her right to befriend a Gentile.
(d) Venters is a terrible employee.

4. After taking Lassiter to Milly's grave, what does Jane wonder aloud to Venters?
(a) If Lassiter was Milly's husband.
(b) If Lassiter knew Milly very well.
(c) If Lassiter was Milly's father.
(d) If Lassiter was Milly's brother.

5. What are the signs that Milly gave up the Mormon religion?
(a) She taught in a Gentile school.
(b) She told Jane she gave up the religion.
(c) Her headstone has no Mormon symbols.
(d) She quit teaching and fought against Mormon ways of raising a girl.

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

7. What does Venters discover about Balancing Rock?
(a) It can roll into Surprise Valley.
(b) If he pushes it, the opening to Deception Pass will be blocked.
(c) It is covered with ancient writings.
(d) It will not move even if pushed.

8. Who does Jane think is the "unseen hand"?
(a) Tull.
(b) Oldring.
(c) The bishop.
(d) Venters.

9. Lassiter wants to go home? Where is home for Lassiter?
(a) Texas.
(b) Cottonwood.
(c) Northern Utah.
(d) Illinois.

10. What does Venters do to get some beef for Bess?
(a) Finds a stray cow and brings him back to Surprise Valley.
(b) Invades a cattle drive and robs eight head of cattle.
(c) Returns to Withersteen house and steals eight cattle.
(d) Steals cattle from Oldring.

11. What does Mary Brandt, Janes friend, urge her to do when Jane visits her?
(a) Marry Bishop Dyer.
(b) Marry Venters.
(c) Marry Tull.
(d) Become a Gentile.

12. Why does Venters want Bess to get well?
(a) He thinks she can lead him to Oldring.
(b) He wants to find out her story.
(c) He doesn't want to be responsible for killing an unarmed woman.
(d) He thinks she is rich.

13. What does Venters name the rock at the entrance to Surprise Valley?
(a) Bess's Rock.
(b) Venter's Rock
(c) Balancing Rock.
(d) Jane's Rock.

14. During dinner with Jane and Venters, Lassiter says he is looking for something. What is it?
(a) The grave of Milly Erne.
(b) A place to stay the night.
(c) Bern Venters.
(d) Something to eat.

15. What did Jane's father train her to do?
(a) Cook.
(b) Ride horses.
(c) Shoot like a man.
(d) Run the ranch and manage 100 employees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship does Venters assume that Bess had with Oldring?

2. Why has Mrs. Larkin always been afraid to give her daughter to Jane?

3. What is Withersteen House?

4. Jane asks Lassiter to be her friend, but only under one condition. What is the condition?

5. Lassiter rides into the white herd to calm them and stop the movement. What happens to Lassiter's horse?

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