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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the ranch hand in the duel that Charlie and Eli watched?
(a) Stamm.
(b) Williams.
(c) Robinson.
(d) Smith.

3. What did Eli do with the money he got from Mayfield for the pelt?
(a) Spent it on brandy.
(b) Secretly gave it to the pale bookkeeper.
(c) Gambled it away.
(d) Donated it to a charity.

4. Who caught up with the Sisters brothers at the stream right after Charlie tried Eli's toothbrush?
(a) The boy with the wagons.
(b) Hermann Kermit Warm.
(c) The weeping man.
(d) The Commodore.

5. What did Williams do in the duel that was shameful?
(a) He hid behind his second.
(b) He shot into the crowd, wounding a woman.
(c) He ran away.
(d) He cried.

6. Why did Charlie say he told Eli the bad news about the inn keeper?
(a) Charlie did not want Eli to give money to unworthy people.
(b) Charlie hated Eli.
(c) Charlie did not want Eli to starve himself in vain.
(d) Charlie wanted to hurt Eli's feelings.

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

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

9. What creature did Charlie kill to bring its pelt to Mayfield?
(a) A rare white deer.
(b) A red-haired she-bear.
(c) A ferret.
(d) A moose.

10. What did Eli and the inn keeper do together when he went into her room?
(a) Had sex.
(b) Kissed.
(c) Exchanged addresses.
(d) Brushed their teeth.

11. Why did Eli object to climbing through the shack's window with Charlie?
(a) Eli had a broken arm and could not get up to the window.
(b) Eli did not believe in curses.
(c) Eli was afraid of heights.
(d) Eli was heavier than Charlie and was afraid he would not fit through the window.

12. What did Eli leave for the inn keeper that Charlie objected to?
(a) A five dollar piece.
(b) A gold watch.
(c) A pearl necklace.
(d) One hundred dollars.

13. What did Charlie do the boy the brothers found with the abandoned wagons?
(a) He hit him on the head with the stock of his rifle.
(b) He sent him off in the woods to die.
(c) He maimed him.
(d) He killed him.

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

15. What did the prospector jabbing Eli with his gun ask if Eli and Charlie were hunting?
(a) A moose.
(b) A red-haired fox.
(c) A red-haired she-bear.
(d) A rare white deer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Eli cross the threshold of the house with the string of beads?

3. What was the name of the bar Charlie and Eli frequented in their home city?

4. What happened when the boy began to ride with the Sisters brothers in Part II?

5. What did Charlie say would likely become of Tub when Eli sold him?

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