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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) One of the men he had been traveling with stole all their money and fled.
(d) He had lost a foot in an accident.

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

3. What did Charlie tell the boy with the wagons they had done to his father?
(a) Maimed him.
(b) Killed him.
(c) Taken him to the hospital.
(d) Stolen his money.

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

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

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

7. What was the name of Charlie Sisters's horse?
(a) Harry.
(b) Tub.
(c) Flash.
(d) Nimble.

8. How did the pale bookkeeper protect Eli in Mayfield's hotel?
(a) She spirited him out of the hotel and into the stable.
(b) She gave him an extra gun.
(c) She hid him in the closet.
(d) She took him to a room to which only she held the key and locked him in.

9. What color is the horse Eli finds in their travels in Part II and decides to take as his own?
(a) Brown.
(b) A mix of brown and black.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

10. How did Charlie get the tools he needed to cut a wider opening in the window of the shack?
(a) Charlie bought the tools at a trading post.
(b) Charlie killed five prospectors for their tools.
(c) Charlie bartered for the tools with prospectors.
(d) Charlie took the tools from sleeping Indians.

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

12. What position was Charlie to take on the Hermann Kermit Warm job?
(a) First Soldier.
(b) Lead Man.
(c) Second Soldier.
(d) Second Man.

13. Where did the Sisters brothers leave the gold they had stolen from Mayfield?
(a) Underneath a potbellied stove in the corner of the Mayfield hotel.
(b) In Mayfield's safe.
(c) In a safe deposit box at the local bank.
(d) In the pale bookkeeper's bedroom.

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

15. What kind of illness overcame Eli right after he recovered from the venomous bite?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A tooth infection that lead to his face swelling dramatically.
(c) A lung infection.
(d) A partial leg paralysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Williams do in the duel that was shameful?

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

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

4. What did Eli hear Charlie saying in the bathtub that upset him?

5. How did Eli feel when they left the boy at the stream in Part II?

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