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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the owner of the restaurant Warm took Morris to look like?
(a) He was dressed in trapper's furs.
(b) He had a full head of clean hair and wore a tuxedo.
(c) He wore the clothes of a prospector.
(d) He had an eye patch and no teeth.

2. 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 he thought Morris was insane.
(c) Charlie said Morris had always been fanciful and that the writings sounded like lies.
(d) Charlie said he believed what Morris had written.

3. Where did Warm learn about chemistry?
(a) In school.
(b) From a lieutenant colonel named Briggs.
(c) From his father.
(d) From his mother.

4. When Eli got back to where they had left Tub in Part IV, what had become of his horse?
(a) Tub had fallen down a steep hill and died.
(b) Tub had been stolen by a passerby.
(c) Tub had been shot by a passerby.
(d) Tub had found the strength to get up and flee.

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

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

7. What drink did Charlie and Eli have at the expensive restaurant in San Francisco?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Whisky.
(c) Gin.
(d) Vodka.

8. What was wrong with the coffee the prospector near Warm's claim made for Eli and Charlie?
(a) It was burned.
(b) It was actually dirt.
(c) It was actually tea.
(d) It was poisoned.

9. What did Eli tell Charlie he thought about the prospectors whose camp they passed on the way to Warm's claim?
(a) They looked like horse traders.
(b) They looked like lawyers.
(c) They looked like chefs.
(d) They looked like killers.

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 especially tough and hardy.
(b) The solitude of working in the wild is not healthy for men.
(c) That the prospectors were all alcoholics.
(d) The the prospectors did not have much longer to live.

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

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

13. How did Charlie propose killing the Commodore?
(a) Poison.
(b) Shooting.
(c) With a pillow over his face while he slept.
(d) Stabbing.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charlie tell Eli the Commodore had instructed him to do before killing Warm?

2. What did the prospector tell Charlie and Eli about the camp of men they would pass on their way to Warm's claim?

3. What was Charlie surprised that Eli knew about how Charlie felt about the Commodore?

4. What did Warm tell Morris about how the Commodore had treated Warm?

5. Why did Warm tell Morris he wanted Morris to go into business with him?

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