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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (pages 171 - 216).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the boy with the wagons ask Charlie and Eli for?
(a) To borrow money.
(b) To be allowed to travel with them to the California border.
(c) To borrow a blanket.
(d) To have more of their food.

2. How did Charlie get the tools he needed to cut a wider opening in the window of the shack?
(a) Charlie took the tools from sleeping Indians.
(b) Charlie bartered for the tools with prospectors.
(c) Charlie bought the tools at a trading post.
(d) Charlie killed five prospectors for their tools.

3. How did reading Morris's writings change Charlie's and Eli's feelings about killing Warm?
(a) Charlie said he did not like the idea of killing a man because of his own ingenuity, and Eli agreed.
(b) Charlie said he thought Warm deserved to die even more after reading Morris's writings.
(c) Eli wanted to kill Morris, but not Warm, and Charlie agreed.
(d) Eli said he thought Warm and Morris should both be killed as soon as possible.

4. How did Eli alter his dinner order in the restaurant in Jacksonville?
(a) He asked for more meat.
(b) He asked for something higher in fat.
(c) He asked for more eggs.
(d) He asked for a smaller portion with more vegetables.

5. What did Eli leave for the inn keeper that Charlie objected to?
(a) A five dollar piece.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) A gold watch.
(d) A pearl necklace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charlie tell Eli the Commodore had instructed him to do before killing Warm?

2. What did the brothers find in Morris's hotel room?

3. What did the stable hand tell Eli and Charlie would be best for Tub after the surgery?

4. In his writings, how did Morris describe the way Warm had approached him for the first time?

5. What did Eli tell Charlie just before they left San Francisco for Sacramento to find Warm and Morris?

(see the answer key)

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