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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Eli cross the threshold of the house with the string of beads?
(a) He needed to get food.
(b) He had to go to the bathroom.
(c) He wanted some fresh air.
(d) A grizzly bear attacked Tub and he wanted to save the horse.

2. Who did the Sisters brothers think the old woman at the shack was?
(a) A landowner.
(b) A thief.
(c) Their mother.
(d) A witch or a gypsy.

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

4. Who won the duel?
(a) Stamm.
(b) Reynolds.
(c) Williams.
(d) Smith.

5. What did the Sisters brothers do for a living?
(a) The were assassins for the Commodore.
(b) They were soldiers.
(c) They were barmen.
(d) They were prospectors.

6. What kind of animal was in Eli's dream about the peculiar girl?
(a) A horse.
(b) A moose.
(c) A bear.
(d) A dog missing a leg.

7. How did Charlie and Eli think the Indian in Part II had died?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Organ failure.
(c) Beating.
(d) Gunshot wound.

8. Who did Mayfield bring in to dance for the Sisters brothers?
(a) A young Indian girl.
(b) A naked woman.
(c) A bearded lady.
(d) A young Chinese boy.

9. Who did Eli meet at Mayfield's hotel who he took a fancy to?
(a) A pale bookkeeper.
(b) A prostitute.
(c) A jewel thief.
(d) A chamber maid.

10. What had happened to make the boy with the wagons fall on hard times?
(a) He had contracted typhus and was dying.
(b) His father had died, leaving him alone.
(c) He had lost a foot in an accident.
(d) One of the men he had been traveling with stole all their money and fled.

11. What kind of liquor did both Charlie and Eli drink most often?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Gin.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Amaretto.

12. What did the inn keeper tell Eli that hurt his feelings?
(a) That she thought he was ugly.
(b) That she preferred men who were slimmer than he was.
(c) That she was already attached.
(d) That she hated his line of work.

13. What flavor of pie was Eli's favorite?
(a) Apple.
(b) Cherry.
(c) Rhubarb.
(d) Blueberry.

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

15. Why did Eli change his mind and decide to keep Tub in Part II?
(a) He felt Tub had been a faithful horse.
(b) He felt guilty taking a dead man's horse.
(c) He did not like the black horse after all.
(d) He thought Tub would get faster.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Charlie do the boy the brothers found with the abandoned wagons?

3. What did the pale bookkeeper give Eli to remember her by?

4. What was the name of Eli Sisters's horse?

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

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