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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XXXVI - XXXIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Goshoot Indians hurting, according to the narrator?
(a) The reliable reputation of Indians.
(b) The exaggerated reputation of Indians.
(c) The romantic reputation of Indians.
(d) The underestimated reputation of Indians.

2. Which one of the following is NOT found in the Great American Desert?
(a) Wagon parts.
(b) Bones.
(c) Indian money.
(d) Relics.

3. What happens to the mules as they become tired from the heat of the desert?
(a) They pull the coach in the wrong direction.
(b) They lean up against the coach, causing it to turn over.
(c) They refuse to pull the coach.
(d) They pull the coach in circles.

4. What eventually happens to Jules?
(a) He disappears and is never heard from again.
(b) He is run over by a stagecoach.
(c) He is killed by Indians.
(d) He is killed by Slade.

5. How is the coyote described in the story?
(a) As a slow animal that does not know how to leave at the sign of threat.
(b) As a fast animal that does not know how to leave at the sign of threat.
(c) As a slow animal that attempts to take off at the first sign of threat.
(d) As a fast animal that takes off at the first sign of threat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the followers supposed to bring back after they survey the east area?

2. What does the narrator ask his superior to raise his salary to after the first week of working in the mill?

3. Where was Slade born?

4. How does the narrator's party determine that they are lost in the beginning of Chapter XXXII?

5. How is the Whiteman Cement Mine described?

(see the answer key)

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