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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 277 - 325).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Warm tell Morris about how the Commodore had treated Warm?
(a) Warm told Morris the Commodore was happy to fund his project and they were good business partners.
(b) Warm told Morris the Commodore had tried to kill him when he would not give the Commodore the recipe for the formula.
(c) Warm told Morris the Commodore had been angry with Warm at first but now he was willing to see if Warm's formula would really work.
(d) Warm told Morris he had indeed stolen from the Commodore and that the Commodore had forgiven Warm.

2. How did the Sisters brothers manage to escape from Warm upon their first meeting?
(a) A group of Indians intervened.
(b) Warm lost his balance from his branch and the Sisters brothers fled.
(c) Morris knocked Warm out from behind.
(d) Warm lost his grip on his gun and the Sisters brothers fled.

3. What did the Sisters brothers do with the bodies of the dead prospectors at Warm's camp?
(a) They threw them in the river.
(b) They buried them.
(c) They threw them in a ravine.
(d) They burned them.

4. What did Charlie do to the prospector who would not stop jabbing Eli in the leg with his rifle?
(a) He tied him up and tortured him.
(b) He killed him by shooting him in the head.
(c) He beat him badly.
(d) He drowned him.

5. What kind of creature bit Eli, sending him into an illness of fever?
(a) A scorpion.
(b) A snake.
(c) A spider.
(d) A raccoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Charlie surprised that Eli knew about how Charlie felt about the Commodore?

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

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

4. What did Eli see when he emerged from Warm's tent right after Warm died?

5. What kind of illness overcame Eli right after he recovered from the venomous bite?

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