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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 does Davies do that upsets Donald?
(a) He tries to show Tetley Donald's letter to his wife.
(b) He wants to read Donald's letter out loud.
(c) He preaches the gospel ceaselessly.
(d) He refuses to see Donald's wife personally.

2. Which posse member lives in Pike's Hole?
(a) Willard Tetley.
(b) Gil.
(c) Bartlett.
(d) Mark.

3. What does Martin request when Tetley has a tree prepared to hang them?
(a) He asks to be allowed to write a letter.
(b) He asks for a cigarette.
(c) He asks for a last meal.
(d) He asks to see his wife and children again.

4. Who stands beside Art in the dark when the group thinks someone is coming?
(a) Gerald.
(b) Gil.
(c) Sparks.
(d) Smith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Art finally insist that Sparks take?

2. What is the name of the only valley between the men and Pike's Hole?

3. What does Sparks claim is in all men?

4. What does Martin suggest to Tetley after Tetley inspects the brand on the cattle they were driving?

5. Who fired the shot?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Mapes fires the shot that signaled the time to whip the horses out?

3. 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?

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

5. What makes Gil confront Tetley and why do they almost come to blows?

6. What is so important about the letter Martin wrote to his wife that Davies is trying to convince others in the posse to read it?

7. Where do the men believe that the rustlers and their cattle might have stopped for the night?

8. Who does Tetley direct to be responsible for whipping the horses out from underneath the men who are about to be hanged and why?

9. Why is the other evidence offered by Martin to support his claims of innocence refuted by the posse members?

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

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