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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XLIX - LIV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What moves Morgan's house on top of Hyde's ranch?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) An avalanche.
(c) A landslide.
(d) A tornado.

2. How many feet of dirt is Hyde's ranch buried underneath?
(a) Eighty-four.
(b) Thirty-eight.
(c) Forty-eight.
(d) Eighty-three.

3. How long is the train of Mormons that the stagecoach passes before the Rocky Mountains?
(a) Forty-five wagons.
(b) Thirty wagons.
(c) Thirty-five wagons.
(d) Forty wagons.

4. Where does the narrator finally enjoy a great breakfast?
(a) Pleasant Hill.
(b) Green River.
(c) Robinsonville.
(d) Horseshoe Lake.

5. How is Nookes thrown overboard from Blakely's boat?
(a) With his arm broken.
(b) With his face beaten.
(c) With his hands tied.
(d) With his ankles tied.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jack Williams killed?

2. What causes the driver to lose the road one night?

3. Although his work is never published in the paper, what does the narrator write specifically for The Occidental?

4. What do the members of the party do before going to sleep on the winter night they are convinced will be their last?

5. How does Blakely threaten the jury at Nookes' trial?

(see the answer key)

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