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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (pages 5 - 75).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the old woman at the shack leave behind when she disappeared during the night?
(a) A string of beads across the threshold the brothers take as a sign of a curse.
(b) A bag of gold.
(c) A horse.
(d) A pot of tea.

2. What is the most frequent reason Charlie could not travel during the brothers' journey to San Francisco?
(a) His horse was too old.
(b) His foot swelled from an old injury.
(c) He was sick with the flu.
(d) He was hung over from alcohol.

3. Who was the Commodore's scout who has gone ahead of Charlie and Eli to San Francisco on the Hermann Warm job?
(a) John Reynolds.
(b) Harry Jacobs.
(c) Henry Morris.
(d) John Smith.

4. What did Charlie steal from the doctor who patched up Eli?
(a) Morphine.
(b) A gun.
(c) A bunch of syringes.
(d) A numbing medication.

5. What did Williams do in the duel that was shameful?
(a) He hid behind his second.
(b) He cried.
(c) He shot into the crowd, wounding a woman.
(d) He ran away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eli buy at the clothing store where Eli got an entire new outfit?

2. What did the doctor from the encampment give Eli that Eli was very impressed with throughout the book?

3. What kind of creature bit Eli, sending him into an illness of fever?

4. What was the name of the lawyer in the duel that Charlie and Eli watched?

5. What did Eli realize about Charlie as they left the shack with the string of beads?

(see the answer key)

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