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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Martin request when Tetley has a tree prepared to hang them?
2. How much did Martin pay for the ranch?
3. Who appoints himself as their leader?
4. Where does Martin claim to have met him?
5. Which way does Martin tell Tetley he came up?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Mapes fires the shot that signaled the time to whip the horses out?
2. What makes Gil confront Tetley and why do they almost come to blows?
3. Why is the other evidence offered by Martin to support his claims of innocence refuted by the posse members?
4. What evidence is revealed when Juan attempts to escape that seems to be an irrefutable link between the three men and Kinkaid's death?
5. Who does Art find himself standing next to when the posse scatters after someone is convinced that they heard someone coming and what does Art do despite Sparks' objections?
6. Why do the elder and younger Tetley's not see eye to eye?
7. What does Martin beg the posse to do in order to give him and his men the benefit of the doubt?
8. 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?
9. What is the situation at the end of the Ox-Bow valley?
10. Why don't the men in the posse believe Martin when he explains the situation to them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What current events have Art and Gil missed while working with the cattle on the ranch? Why is it likely that they were not affected directly? How large is this problem and what is being done about it? What resources are available to the ranchers? What other options are open to them?
Essay Topic 2
What do Tetley and his group discover when they approach the fire in Ox-Bow valley? How does Tetley organize the group? Why are some of the men in the group surprised? Who interrogates the men at the fire? Who speaks for them, and what does he tell the group? Where are he and his two men headed? What does he have with him? Why don't the men believe him? What conflicting evidence is there?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Art become concerned when Gil begins to win big at the poker tables? What does Art fear? Why does he join the game? What does he hope to accomplish by doing so? How effective is his plan? Why? What is Farnley's suggestion as he continues to lose? Does it help?
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