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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. Who is shot in the confusion that follows?
2. Who's ranch does Martin claim to have purchased?
3. What is the first contact the group makes on the trail?
4. Why does Gerald claim to have joined the group?
5. What is Gil most concerned about?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. What does Martin beg the posse to do in order to give him and his men the benefit of the doubt?
4. What is the situation at the end of the Ox-Bow valley?
5. What evidence is revealed when Juan attempts to escape that seems to be an irrefutable link between the three men and Kinkaid's death?
6. Why don't the men in the posse believe Martin when he explains the situation to them?
7. What surprises Tetley and the rest of his group when they move in to confront the men they suspect of rustling and killing Kinkaid?
8. When it is clear to Martin that the posse is not willing to help him to prove their innocence, what does Martin request?
9. What happens when the stage rides by the group on the mountain road to Pike's Hole?
10. Why do the elder and younger Tetley's not see eye to eye?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why does Tetley decide to call a vote the following morning? Who is at the head of the group who is against hanging Martin and his men? How many men stand with him? Who doesn't step forward, but agrees with bringing the men down to face legal consequences instead? What might the outcome have been had the remaining holdouts stepped forward?
Essay Topic 3
What do the members of the posse hear coming? How do they respond at first? When they decide to stop the stage to get information, how does the driver respond? What do the driver and guard believe is happening? How do they respond at first? Who suffers for the misconception? What happens? Who manages to make them understand that they are safe to pull over?
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