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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

4. When Jane asks Lassiter to be her rider, what does that mean?
(a) To be in charge of cattle and horses and ranges.
(b) To ride the sage everyday and look for intruders.
(c) To watch Black Night and Star.
(d) To guard her house at night.

5. Venters goes to find the red herd, but he also wants to do something very specific. What is it?
(a) Camp and fish.
(b) Find Oldring's retreat.
(c) Sleep under the stars.
(d) Practice shooting.

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

7. When Jane tells Blake to go to the sage and get all her horses, what information does Blake have?
(a) The horses are back in the coral.
(b) All the horses are gone.
(c) The horses are eating.
(d) The horses are resting.

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

9. 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.

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

11. When Jane sees the visitor at the Brandt house, why does this person think Jane has not been to church?
(a) Jane has started her own church on her ranch.
(b) Jane is no longer a Mormon.
(c) Jane is involved with Venters.
(d) Tull is keeping Jane to himself while he is courting her.

12. When Venters asks Bess what she did when she wasn't riding with Oldring, what does she say?
(a) The rode horses alone.
(b) She was shut up in a cabin.
(c) She stayed with a woman and her children.
(d) The rustlers took care of her.

13. What does Lassiter say when Jane offers him to be a rider for her?
(a) He kisses her.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He agrees.
(d) He declines.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Venters nurse Bess's fever?

2. Why are there four separate entrances to the Brandt's house?

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

4. After Venters shoots the two riders in the oval valley, what does he do with the dead body?

5. Jane sends Judkins to town to find out about the disappearance of her riders. What does Judkins discover?

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