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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is waiting for Eileen's group when they return to the Mulkerin ranch?
(a) A group of armed renegades.
(b) Wooston.
(c) The governor.
(d) The sheriff.

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

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 women's hands are calloused when they should be soft.
(c) Hands can reveal much about a person.
(d) Some hands have six fingers.

4. What does Bell say is obvious?
(a) That Russell and Sean had old scores to settle.
(b) That the gold was from government-owned mines.
(c) That Russell is dead.
(d) That Sean is not preparing to leave the ranch.

5. What does Eileen do with her coat?
(a) To carry the gold.
(b) Uses it to protect her knees as she climbs.
(c) Covers Juan.
(d) To signal Sean and the others.

6. What does Russell not believe?
(a) That they will be arrested if they kill Sean Mulkerin.
(b) In ghosts.
(c) That Wooston will be fair to them.
(d) That there is gold.

7. Who tells Sean that someone wants to speak with Sean?
(a) Machado.
(b) Eileen.
(c) Bell.
(d) Montero.

8. What do Sean and Eileen do when they stop at a local store?
(a) Talk about what Wooston has done.
(b) Spread the news of the gold and the fandango.
(c) Buy numerous quarts of whiskey for the fandango.
(d) Show everyone the gold they have found.

9. What does Machado want to do with the Mulkerin party?
(a) He does not say.
(b) Hold them hostage.
(c) Kill them all.
(d) Make them feel miserable.

10. What confirms Eileen's theory about the gold coming from the hills?
(a) Seeing a note scrawled by Jaime on a rock.
(b) Some small gold nuggets laying around.
(c) Pick and shovel marks on the stone.
(d) Juan.

11. Why does Bell try to arrest Sean?
(a) For the murder of Russell.
(b) For refusing an eviction order.
(c) For falsifying records.
(d) For stealing gold from land that does not belong to the Mulkerin family.

12. About what does Sean speak to Montero?
(a) Protecting the land.
(b) Hiding the gold once they recover it.
(c) Getting the gold to the ranch.
(d) Protecting Eileen.

13. What is the trail from Los Angeles to Malibu like?
(a) It runs along the water.
(b) It is steep and narrow.
(c) It runs through desert.
(d) It runs inland several miles.

14. What does Russell find when he follows some tracks?
(a) Three men.
(b) Francisco.
(c) A table.
(d) Another cave.

15. What does Silva tell Wooston?
(a) That the Mulkerin party is back at their ranch.
(b) That he is quitting working for Wooston.
(c) That the Mulkerin party is in a dead-end canyon.
(d) That the Mulkerin party has disappeared.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Juan careful to do?

2. Who covers Eileen and the others' tracks?

3. Who is missing from the group Wooston sent to confront Eileen's group?

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

5. What does Wooston learn that angers him?

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