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

2. How did the inn keeper react when Eli told her who he and Charlie were?
(a) She was angry.
(b) She began crying.
(c) She was impressed.
(d) She rapidly left the room.

3. What did Eli resolve to do to try to win the inn keeper's affections?
(a) Make more money.
(b) Lose 25 pounds.
(c) Quit drinking.
(d) Become an honest man.

4. What was the name of the bar Charlie and Eli frequented in their home city?
(a) The King Pin.
(b) The Bleeding Horse.
(c) The Pig-King.
(d) The Horse and Saw.

5. What did Eli hear Charlie saying in the bathtub that upset him?
(a) Charlie said Eli was fat.
(b) Charlie said he hated Eli.
(c) Charlie said Eli was stupid.
(d) Charlie said he would have separated from Eli long ago if Eli was not his brother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had happened to make the boy with the wagons fall on hard times?

3. How did Warm get away from the Commodore at their last meeting?

4. What was Charlie's reaction to reading Morris's writings about Warm?

5. What did the boy with the wagons tell the Sisters brothers he was traveling for?

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