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

2. Who is the first to realize that he has been shot?
(a) Sparks.
(b) Gerald.
(c) Gil.
(d) Davies.

3. Who does Tetley ask to retrieve their guns?
(a) Art.
(b) Farnley.
(c) Gil.
(d) Gerald.

4. Where does the bullet hit him?
(a) In the stomach.
(b) In the chest.
(c) In the shoulder.
(d) In the leg.

5. Where does Martin claim to have sold off his own cattle?
(a) Salinas.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Salt Spring.
(d) Sonoma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Donald Martin claim to live?

2. What kind of brand does Amigo describe, cinching the fact that the men he saw were the rustlers?

3. Who does Bartlett recognize?

4. How was Donald Martin killed?

5. Who is the focus of the story Gil narrates to Art during their conversation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bothers Gil most about the posse and their intentions?

2. What does Sparks tell Art about as they wait in the shadows?

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

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

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

6. What happens when the stage rides by the group on the mountain road to Pike's Hole?

7. What does Martin beg the posse to do in order to give him and his men the benefit of the doubt?

8. 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?

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

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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