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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Charlie suggest giving to Tub before Eli washed his wound out with alcohol?
(a) Some of the numbing medication he had stolen from the dentist.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Oats.
(d) Apples.

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

3. What was Charlie's reaction to reading Morris's writings about Warm?
(a) Charlie said he wanted to check Morris's claims with the Commodore before doing anything else.
(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 believed what Morris had written.

4. What did Charlie and Eli ask the prospector near Warm's claim?
(a) They asked him if they could borrow a horse.
(b) They asked him if they had seen two men fitting Morris and Warm's description.
(c) They asked him if he had seen the River of Light.
(d) They asked him how much gold he had found.

5. What was it that gave away Warm and Morris's position to the Sisters Brothers at first?
(a) A beaver tried to get into a barrel of formula, and either Warm or Morris threw a rock to shoo it away.
(b) Warm let off a shot from his pistol by mistake.
(c) Morris was whistling.
(d) Warm was singing.

6. Why did Eli and Charlie have to leave Tub behind as they approached Warm's claim?
(a) Tub drowned in the river.
(b) Tub was too ill to continue.
(c) Tub got attacked by a raccoon.
(d) Tub broke his leg.

7. What did the brothers find in Morris's hotel room?
(a) A dead body.
(b) An impostor.
(c) Perfumes and waxes, but no luggage and no sign of Morris.
(d) Clothes and money strewn about.

8. How did Warm perform a demonstration of his invention for Morris?
(a) He took Morris to a river and demonstrated his formula there.
(b) He put gold in Morris's hotel washbasin and shined a light on it.
(c) He took Morris to a swimming pool and illuminated some gold dust in it there.
(d) He poured gold dust in a box of dirt and water and illuminated it with his special formula in Morris's hotel room.

9. What did Morris tell Warm he had to do to the Sisters brothers?
(a) Turn them over to the law enforcement authorities.
(b) Shoot them immediately.
(c) Tie them up and flee.
(d) Send them back to the Commodore.

10. What did Eli conclude and comment on to Charlie about the prospectors they had met on their journey?
(a) That the prospectors were all alcoholics.
(b) The the prospectors did not have much longer to live.
(c) That the prospectors were all especially tough and hardy.
(d) The solitude of working in the wild is not healthy for men.

11. What did Charlie tell Eli would happen if they killed the Commodore?
(a) They would have to flee the country.
(b) The Commodore would have men in place to avenge his death.
(c) They would take over the Commodore's business.
(d) They would become rich.

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

13. What did Eli say to Warm to try to dissuade him from shooting him and Charlie?
(a) Eli proposed that Warm let Eli and Charlie work with Warm and Morris collecting the gold from the illuminated river.
(b) Eli proposed that they go back to the Commodore and try to negotiate a truce.
(c) Eli proposed that Warm let he and Charlie go so they could kill the Commodore.
(d) Eli proposed that they travel back to town and sell Warm's formula.

14. What effect did Warm's formula have on the body?
(a) The formula had no effect at all on the body.
(b) The formula made the skin turn red, but is painless.
(c) The formula made the skin tickle slightly.
(d) The formula was very caustic and harmful to the skin and organs.

15. What did the stable hand use to perform the surgery Tub needed?
(a) A spoon.
(b) A needle.
(c) A spade.
(d) A scalpel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Sisters brothers see when they approached Warm and Morris's camp the second time?

2. Why did the owner at The Black Skull tell the Sisters brothers he would not try to find Warm?

3. What type of animal became seasick on the ferry voyage?

4. What color was the formula?

5. In his writings, how did Morris describe the way Warm had approached him for the first time?

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