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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the merchant at the local store startled?
(a) At the quantity and quality of gold Eileen shows him.
(b) At the quantity of liquor Sean and Eileen buy.
(c) At the change in fortune of the Mulkerin family.
(d) At the tales of Wooston's treachery.

2. Why is Eileen distraught?
(a) There is only enough gold to pay half of what she owes on the ranch.
(b) Mariana is captured by Marchado's men.
(c) Sean is shot.
(d) Win is lost in the canyon.

3. What do Tennison and Sean talk about concerning people's hands?
(a) Some men's hands are soft and show they have never worked hard.
(b) Some hands have six fingers.
(c) Some women's hands are calloused when they should be soft.
(d) Hands can reveal much about a person.

4. Who does Sean not see?
(a) Machado.
(b) Mariana.
(c) Juan.
(d) Montero.

5. What shocks the others when Eileen returns to them?
(a) That Juan has gone to stop Machado.
(b) That Juan is dead.
(c) That there is so much gold.
(d) That there is only a few dollars of gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Sean that someone wants to speak with Sean?

2. About what does Eileen hint at to the merchant?

3. Who is waiting for Eileen's group when they return to the Mulkerin ranch?

4. Why does Juan say it is important for the party to remember the route?

5. What does Francisco talk about as the men are traveling?

(see the answer key)

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