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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Warm say his father had died?
(a) He was poisoned.
(b) He drowned.
(c) He was hit by a car.
(d) He killed himself with an ax.

2. What was unusual about Eli's first sight of the harbor in San Francisco?
(a) There were dead men all around.
(b) There wes a terrible storm brewing.
(c) There were many abandoned ships.
(d) There were no ships.

3. How did Warm manage to leave the militia?
(a) He fled and hoped he did not get caught.
(b) One of his friends forged discharge papers for him.
(c) He had never formally signed up, so he was free to leave.
(d) His father used his influence to get him out.

4. 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) Warm was singing.
(d) Morris was whistling.

5. How did the Sisters brothers manage to escape from Warm upon their first meeting?
(a) A group of Indians intervened.
(b) Warm lost his grip on his gun and the Sisters brothers fled.
(c) Morris knocked Warm out from behind.
(d) Warm lost his balance from his branch and the Sisters brothers fled.

6. What did the Sisters brothers tell Warm about how they learned about his formula?
(a) They told him they had read about his formula in the newspaper.
(b) They told him they learned the facts from Morris and from Morris's journal.
(c) They told him the prospectors down the river had told them.
(d) They told him the townspeople had told them.

7. What did the owner at The Black Skull tell the Sisters brothers about Warm?
(a) He told them Warm had stolen from him.
(b) He told them Warm had asked him to be his business partner but had left town without him.
(c) He told them Warm was his brother.
(d) He told them Warm had killed his wife.

8. What type of animal became seasick on the ferry voyage?
(a) The horses.
(b) The pigs.
(c) The cows.
(d) The chickens.

9. In his writings, how did Morris describe the way Warm had approached him for the first time?
(a) Morris said Warm had been drunk and had smelled terrible.
(b) Morris said Warm had been sad.
(c) Morris said warm had been angry and abusive.
(d) Morris said Warm had been smooth and charming.

10. What did Warm tell Morris about how the Commodore had treated Warm?
(a) Warm told Morris he had indeed stolen from the Commodore and that the Commodore had forgiven Warm.
(b) Warm told Morris the Commodore had tried to kill him when he would not give the Commodore the recipe for the formula.
(c) Warm told Morris the Commodore was happy to fund his project and they were good business partners.
(d) Warm told Morris the Commodore had been angry with Warm at first but now he was willing to see if Warm's formula would really work.

11. What was Charlie surprised that Eli knew about how Charlie felt about the Commodore?
(a) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie wanted to become a business partner with the Commodore.
(b) Charlie was surprised that Eli knew he was hoping to one day usurp or take the Commodore's place.
(c) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie thought of the Commodore as a father.
(d) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie wanted to kill the Commodore.

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

13. What did Charlie tell Eli the Commodore had instructed him to do before killing Warm?
(a) Get the formula by whatever means necessary.
(b) Kill Eli.
(c) Blind Warm.
(d) Kill Morris.

14. What color was the woman's dress and scrap of fabric she passed between her hands at The Black Skull?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

15. How did the brothers communicate with the hotel manager from Morris's hotel room?
(a) Via telephone.
(b) By speaking to her across the desk.
(c) Via walkie-talkie.
(d) Through an early intercom system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eli say to Warm to try to dissuade him from shooting him and Charlie?

2. How did Charlie and Eli often come about their truces?

3. How did Eli feel when Tub finally died?

4. What color was the formula?

5. How did Warm catch Eli and Charlie off-guard as they approached Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?

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