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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Warm catch Eli and Charlie off-guard as they approached Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?
(a) Warm had positioned himself on a tree branch and pointed his gun at the brothers.
(b) Warm had friends who surrounded Eli and Charlie.
(c) Warm had shot one of the brothers as soon as he saw him.
(d) Warm had rigged up a trap to trip Eli and Charlie.

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

3. 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 the townspeople had told them.
(c) They told him the prospectors down the river had told them.
(d) They told him they learned the facts from Morris and from Morris's journal.

4. How did Charlie and Eli often come about their truces?
(a) Through exchanging money.
(b) Through reminiscing about old times.
(c) Through fist-fighting.
(d) Through reasonable, logical discussions.

5. What was Charlie's habit prior to the completion of an assignment from the Commodore?
(a) Wearing a tie.
(b) Polishing his pistol handles.
(c) Picking a fight with Eli.
(d) Brushing his horse.

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

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

8. What did the prospector near Warm's claim tell Eli and Charlie that Warm and Morris had been carrying?
(a) Many barrels of wine.
(b) Extra saddles.
(c) Many pounds of food.
(d) A huge amount of gold.

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

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

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

12. What did Eli try to convince Charlie to do over dinner at the expensive restaurant in San Francisco?
(a) Kill Warm and Morris and take the formula for themselves.
(b) Kill Morris and go into business with Warm.
(c) Let Warm and Morris live and leave the service of the Commodore.
(d) Kill Warm and go into business with Morris.

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

14. What did the stable hand at the hotel need to tell Eli about Tub?
(a) Tub needed to be put down.
(b) Tub had lost a shoe.
(c) Tub's eye needed to be removed.
(d) Tub needed to have a cut stitched up.

15. What did Eli shout at Charlie about as they mounted their horses and left San Francisco for Sacramento?
(a) Eli shouted at Charlie about Henry Morris.
(b) Eli shouted at Charlie about Hermann Warm.
(c) Eli shouted at Charlie about the Job.
(d) Eli shouted at Charlie about his horse, Tub.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charlie and Eli conclude about Henry Morris's character?

2. What did Eli tell Charlie he thought about the prospectors whose camp they passed on the way to Warm's claim?

3. What did Charlie tell Eli about riding Tub after Tub's surgery?

4. What drink did Charlie and Eli have at the expensive restaurant in San Francisco?

5. What did the prospector who approached Eli and Charlie near Warm's claim ask of the brothers?

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