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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Eli leave with the prostitute to give to the pale bookkeeper for him?
(a) The blue silk scarf.
(b) Precious gems.
(c) $100.
(d) A secret code.

2. How much money did the Sisters brothers let Mayfield keep out of Mayfield's own fortune?
(a) $500.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $100.
(d) $2,000.

3. Who threatened the Sisters brothers at Mayfield's hotel, and framed them for stealing the pelt?
(a) A group of trappers.
(b) A group of jewel thieves.
(c) A group of barmen.
(d) A group of stable boys.

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

5. What did Eli give to the boy with the wagons as the Sisters brothers left the stream?
(a) Extra food.
(b) His share of the gold they had taken from the dead prospector.
(c) A warm blanket.
(d) Paper money.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who was the boy with the grouping of wagons waiting for?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His friends.

12. How much did Mayfield pay the Sisters brothers for the pelt?
(a) $20.
(b) $500.
(c) $2,000.
(d) $200.

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

14. What did Charlie tell Eli that upset him about the inn keeper he liked?
(a) That she was ugly.
(b) That she had spoken ill of Eli to Charlie.
(c) That she was really a man.
(d) That she had offered Charlie sex for money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the pale bookkeeper protect Eli in Mayfield's hotel?

2. Who was the Commodore's scout who has gone ahead of Charlie and Eli to San Francisco on the Hermann Warm job?

3. What did Charlie think the first time Eli persuaded him to try his toothbrush?

4. What did Eli see at the duel that upset him?

5. Who did the prospector say was willing to pay for special pelt of a specific animal?

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