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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 217 - 276).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Morris tell Warm he had to do to the Sisters brothers?
(a) Shoot them immediately.
(b) Turn them over to the law enforcement authorities.
(c) Tie them up and flee.
(d) Send them back to the Commodore.

2. What was the name of the ferry Charlie and Eli boarded after leaving San Francisco?
(a) Old Ulysses.
(b) The Mermaid.
(c) The Eagle Eye.
(d) The James Joyce.

3. What did the brothers pass on the way out of San Francisco?
(a) A group of prostitutes.
(b) A group of dead prospectors.
(c) A group of dead bears.
(d) A dead, skinned and partially mutilated horse that had died the previous day.

4. What did Eli conclude and comment on to Charlie about the prospectors they had met on their journey?
(a) That the prospectors were all especially tough and hardy.
(b) The solitude of working in the wild is not healthy for men.
(c) That the prospectors were all alcoholics.
(d) The the prospectors did not have much longer to live.

5. What was unusual about Eli's first sight of the harbor in San Francisco?
(a) There were no ships.
(b) There were dead men all around.
(c) There were many abandoned ships.
(d) There wes a terrible storm brewing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the stable hand at the hotel need to tell Eli about Tub?

2. What did the stable hand use to perform the surgery Tub needed?

3. How did the pale bookkeeper protect Eli in Mayfield's hotel?

4. What did the boy with the wagons ask Charlie and Eli for?

5. What color beard did the hotel manager say the man Morris left with have?

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