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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. What is Gil most concerned about?
(a) Not having had a say in who his bosses were.
(b) The coming snowfall.
(c) The amount of noise they are making as a group.
(d) The head start the rustlers got.

2. What kind of brand does Amigo describe, cinching the fact that the men he saw were the rustlers?
(a) Drew's joined H brand.
(b) Drew's double S brand.
(c) Drew's joined M brand.
(d) Drew's double X brand.

3. Which way does Martin tell Tetley he came up?
(a) By way of Solo Stream.
(b) By way of Rapid River.
(c) By way of Mono Lake.
(d) By way of Lost Lagoon.

4. What was used to cauterize Art's wounded shoulder?
(a) A heated belt buckle.
(b) A hot knife.
(c) A heated medallion.
(d) A heated up pistol barrel.

5. How long had the ranch been empty?
(a) Four years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sparks pass the time as he rides along with them?

2. How did Gil refer to Rose over the winter with Art?

3. What does Martin request when Tetley has a tree prepared to hang them?

4. What song does Art begin humming to himself?

5. Why does Donald Martin claim to have Drew's cows?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprises Tetley and the rest of his group when they move in to confront the men they suspect of rustling and killing Kinkaid?

2. Why don't the men in the posse believe Martin when he explains the situation to them?

3. What does Donald Martin tell the posse when he is questioned about the fact that he has cattle with Drew's brand on them in his possession?

4. Why do the elder and younger Tetley's not see eye to eye?

5. What is the situation at the end of the Ox-Bow valley?

6. What evidence is revealed when Juan attempts to escape that seems to be an irrefutable link between the three men and Kinkaid's death?

7. What is unusual about the fact that Art would give Sparks his coat, and why would many men not have done so?

8. What group of riders heads the posse and what do they discover at the mountain path leading to the town of Pike's Hole?

9. When the stage coach guard fires on the posse, who does he hit and how is he aware that he has hit anyone?

10. What is the tone of the conversation between Gerard and Art as they are on the trail to Pike's Hole and how does Gerald see men and women in general?

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