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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Charlie and Morris do together on the morning after the Sisters brothers struck their deal with Morris and Warm?
(a) Went for a hike.
(b) Went for a swim.
(c) Found new horses.
(d) Hunted a bear.

2. How did the hotel manager respond to Charlie's request to see what Morris had left behind?
(a) She said she had given it away.
(b) She refused.
(c) She said someone had stolen it.
(d) She said she would let them see it for a fee.

3. What did Charlie and Eli conclude about Henry Morris's character?
(a) That he was a criminal.
(b) That he was a genius.
(c) That he was insane.
(d) That he was an honorable man, even though he had abandoned his post with the Commodore.

4. What did Eli and Charlie realize about Warm and Morris as they talked to the prospectors in Part IV?
(a) Warm and Morris were distraught.
(b) Warm and Morris were tired.
(c) Warm and Morris were drunk.
(d) Warm and Morris were angry.

5. What was the owner of The Black Skull doing when Charlie and Eli went to ask him about Warm?
(a) Eating his dinner.
(b) Playing a game of chance with a beautiful woman.
(c) Beating another man.
(d) Drinking heavily.

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

7. What did Eli and Charlie realize Warm and Morris had actually been carrying?
(a) Extra saddles.
(b) Stolen money.
(c) A huge amount of gold.
(d) Barrels of the formula.

8. Where did Warm wake up one day with no memory of how he had gotten there?
(a) In a hospital.
(b) In a militia barracks.
(c) In Europe.
(d) In a brothel.

9. What was Charlie's reaction to reading Morris's writings about Warm?
(a) Charlie said he believed what Morris had written.
(b) Charlie said Morris had always been fanciful and that the writings sounded like lies.
(c) Charlie said he thought Morris was insane.
(d) Charlie said he wanted to check Morris's claims with the Commodore before doing anything else.

10. What did Warm tell Eli his father had done for a living?
(a) He was a butcher.
(b) He was an inventor.
(c) He was a military man.
(d) He was a chef.

11. How did the Sisters brothers decide to split the profits of the gold hunting with Warm and Morris?
(a) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep half of whatever they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.
(b) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep 25% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.
(c) They agreed that the Sisters brothers would keep 90% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.
(d) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep 75% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would to go Warm and Morris

12. Why did the owner at The Black Skull tell the Sisters brothers he would not try to find Warm?
(a) He was too busy at the restaurant to go after him.
(b) He was too poor to go after him.
(c) He had thought Warm was his friend, and now he was disappointed to find out he was not a true friend.
(d) He was too ill to go after him.

13. What did Charlie and Eli discuss openly for the first time together on the way to Sacramento?
(a) Killing the Commodore.
(b) Opening a shop together.
(c) Selling drugs.
(d) Parting ways.

14. What did the hotel manager say Morris had left behind that she now had in her possession?
(a) Money.
(b) A note for Charlie and Eli.
(c) Suitcases.
(d) A journal.

15. What did the stable hand tell Eli and Charlie would be best for Tub after the surgery?
(a) Injecting the wound with numbing medication.
(b) Filling the wound with putty.
(c) Feeding Tub as much food as possible.
(d) Fresh air and rinses with alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Warm learn about chemistry?

2. What did Eli shout at Charlie about as they mounted their horses and left San Francisco for Sacramento?

3. What did Warm do as he and the Sisters brothers moved closer to each other after Eli had once again proposed working together?

4. How long did the hotel manager say Morris had been gone?

5. What was the name of the ferry Charlie and Eli boarded after leaving San Francisco?

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