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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the rest of the men in the saloon respond?
(a) They believe the killer should be lynched.
(b) They think the Sheriff is a lout.
(c) They offer to ride with him.
(d) They believe the town is all but dead now, too.

2. Who gets into a fight?
(a) Art and Canby.
(b) Gil and Farnley.
(c) Canby and Gil.
(d) Art and Gil.

3. What was young Greene tasked to do originally?
(a) Go to the saloon.
(b) Find Mapes.
(c) Get the Sheriff.
(d) Assemble a posse.

4. What does Art suggest that Gil do?
(a) Sleep it off.
(b) Play Farnley again and let him win.
(c) Return the money he won from Farnley.
(d) Buy Farnley a drink.

5. Why is Bridger's Wells, Nevada almost a ghost town?
(a) The railroad quit.
(b) The town has no sheriff.
(c) The stage no longer stops there.
(d) The town is too far from everywhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Canby tell Art?

2. When did Tetley arrive in the valley?

3. What does Mapes do before everyone leaves?

4. How far is it to the pass that it is believed the rustlers escaped through?

5. Where was Sparks staying?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does a rider bring that raises hostilities towards newcomers especially from Farnley?

2. What is Gil looking forward to most about getting back to Bridger's Wells this spring?

3. Why is Art later surprised that Bartlett managed to succeed in stirring up the men as easily as he did?

4. What causes the men to remount and renew their intention to hunt down the men responsible for the rustling and Kinkaid's murder?

5. Other than the houses that dot the landscape, what businesses exist in Bridger's Wells?

6. What kind of alcohol does Canby have in his saloon, and what does he serve?

7. How do Art and Gil feel about the whole situation?

8. Who is Gabe and what is seen as his greatest value?

9. What does Smith do while they are waiting that backfires on him?

10. Who was the only man in the region who would willingly ride a mule, and why?

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