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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After dinner, Venters goes to the grove to sleep. Who does he see riding through?
(a) Oldring and the Masked Rider.
(b) Jane.
(c) Jane's women who work in her house.
(d) Lassiter.

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

3. After Venters shoots the two riders in the oval valley, what does he do with the dead body?
(a) Leaves it for the coyotes.
(b) Drags it to a corner and covers it with rocks.
(c) Puts it on his horse and carries it back to camp.
(d) Dumps it in the river.

4. How does Venters block the entrance to Surprise Valley?
(a) He leaves the dogs to guard the entrance.
(b) He covers it with thorny branches.
(c) He stacks rocks up to cover the entrance.
(d) He builds a makeshift fence.

5. Lassiter rides into the white herd to calm them and stop the movement. What happens to Lassiter's horse?
(a) It is lost.
(b) It is successful.
(c) It is killed.
(d) It is blinded.

6. What does Bess say Oldring is doing to hide his true motives?
(a) Shooting men.
(b) Keeping Bess.
(c) Rustling cattle.
(d) Terrorizing towns.

7. As the situation worsens, Jane tells Jerd to only care for only two things. What?
(a) The cattle.
(b) The water for the town.
(c) Bells
(d) Black Star and Night.

8. What is the opening to Oldring's den?
(a) Through the middle of the waterfall.
(b) A high pass.
(c) Through another maze of canyon outlets.
(d) Underwater through a cave.

9. What relationship does Venters assume that Bess had with Oldring?
(a) She was never around Oldring.
(b) She was one of his rustlers.
(c) She was his lover.
(d) She was his sister.

10. How many cattle are in the red herd?
(a) 3.
(b) 250.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 15.

11. 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) The horse kneels down for Jane to mount.
(b) She mounts him from a large rock.
(c) She mounts him with Lassiter's help.
(d) She mounts him from her porch.

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

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

14. What does Bess tell Venters about the Masked Rider?
(a) That Oldring is really the Masked Rider.
(b) That she is the Masked Rider, but she never stole or killed.
(c) That she is not the real Masked Rider.
(d) That Jerry Card is really the Masked Rider.

15. When Venters tells Bess of his nightime trips to find beef, how does Bess react?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She almost faints from fear.
(c) She starts yelling.
(d) She is thrilled to get some meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the visit from the Bishop, what does Lassiter tell Jane about her employees?

2. When Venters realizes the Masked Rider is alive, he opens his shirt to look at the wound. What does Venters find?

3. Lassiter wants to go home? Where is home for Lassiter?

4. When Lassiter tells Jane of his past life, what was he?

5. During dinner with Jane and Venters, Lassiter says he is looking for something. What is it?

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