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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How may days does Venters tell Bess that she must wait for him to return from Cottonwood before she knows he is dead?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

2. Bess and Venters return to the cliff dwellings and find something more. What?
(a) Human bone.
(b) Stored food.
(c) Metal instruments for farming.
(d) A secret hiding place inside the caves.

3. What is Venters thinking about as he races across the sage?
(a) He remembers nursing Bess back to health.
(b) That he's ahead of Bess.
(c) He thinks of his childhood.
(d) He remembers stories he's heard about Bess.

4. How old was Bess when she was taken from her mother?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

5. How does Jane react at first when her and Lassiter meet Venters and Bess?
(a) She is angry at Venters.
(b) She forgives Venters.
(c) She is untrusting.
(d) She is confused.

6. What does Lassiter give to Bess?
(a) A painting of her mother.
(b) A pocketwatch that belonged to Jane's father.
(c) A locket with a picture of her mother.
(d) Gold.

7. What does Venters realize the morning after the storm?
(a) That he needs more beef.
(b) That he loves Bess.
(c) That he's afraid of storms.
(d) That he still loves Jane and must return to her.

8. After his time in Surprise Valley, Venters believes that it was wrong of Jane to love him. Why?
(a) He works for Tull.
(b) He never loved Jane.
(c) He is really a Mormon.
(d) It put Jane in a bad position.

9. After Lassiter leaves Surprise Valley, what is the secret Bess reveals to Venters?
(a) She does not love him.
(b) She is scared.
(c) She has gold from the valley.
(d) She was married to Oldring.

10. Where does Lassiter take Jane when they flee Cottonwood?
(a) Illinios.
(b) To the sage.
(c) To Surprise Valley.
(d) To the town of Graze.

11. Who tells Bess about the fate of her father?
(a) Dyer.
(b) Jane.
(c) Venters.
(d) Lassiter.

12. When Venters has his encounter on his way back into Cottonwoods, what horse is Jerry Card riding?
(a) Bells.
(b) Night.
(c) His own.
(d) Black Star.

13. As Lassiter and Venters stand in the shadow of Balancing Rock, what does Lassiter share with Venters?
(a) That Balancing Rock will not roll.
(b) That he knows another way into Surprise Valley.
(c) His love of rolling rocks.
(d) That Balancing Rock has ancient writings.

14. What did Frank Erne do to the new preacher in town?
(a) Converted to Momonism and left town with him.
(b) Became his best friend.
(c) Helped him in his work.
(d) Went to his church and ran him out of town.

15. When Jane faints for the second time in the novel she awakes to Judkins. What does he tell her?
(a) Lassiter is dead.
(b) Lassitre retreived Fay.
(c) Lassiter killed Dyer.
(d) Lassiter escaped from Tull.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the race, who greets Venters and helps him with the horses?

2. What does Lassiter do to Withersteen house when he and Jane flee?

3. Where are Venter's mother and sister?

4. Venters returns to Surprise Valley with supplies for how long?

5. Venters comes down the cliff and is returning to town for a second time, what has happened to Wrangle when he gets to the bottom of the cliff?

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