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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 found the strength to get up and flee.
(c) Tub had been stolen by a passerby.
(d) Tub had been shot by a passerby.

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

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

4. What did Warm do as he and the Sisters brothers moved closer to each other after Eli had once again proposed working together?
(a) Warm yelled loudly.
(b) Warm drew both his pistols.
(c) Warm whispered.
(d) Warm whistled.

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

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

7. What did Eli compare killing Warm and Morris to?
(a) Killing animals.
(b) Killing women and children.
(c) Killing their own brothers.
(d) Killing criminals.

8. 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 Eli knew Charlie thought of the Commodore as a father.
(c) Charlie was surprised that Eli knew he was hoping to one day usurp or take the Commodore's place.
(d) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie wanted to kill the Commodore.

9. What did the prospector tell Charlie and Eli about the camp of men they would pass on their way to Warm's claim?
(a) Not to stop in hopes of making friends with the men there.
(b) To ask the men at the camp if they had seen Warm and Morris.
(c) That the men at the camp were very friendly.
(d) To buy some food and drugs from the men at the camp.

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

11. What upset the stable hand so much when he and Eli tranquilized Tub?
(a) The horse threw up.
(b) The horse kicked the stable hand.
(c) The horse died when he tried to tranquilize it.
(d) The horse collapsed on the men and the stable hand had thought they might be killed.

12. Why did Warm tell Morris he wanted Morris to go into business with him?
(a) Morris could help Warm refine the formula.
(b) Morris had a gift for the public-facing side of his business that Warm himself lacked.
(c) Morris could get the Commodore to reconsider and fund Warm's expedition.
(d) Morris could reason with the Sisters brothers and stop them from killing Warm.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Eli feel when Tub finally died?

2. What is the name of the very expensive restaurant where Eli and Charlie ate in San Francisco?

3. What color beard did the hotel manager say the man Morris left with have?

4. What did Eli try to convince Charlie to do over dinner at the expensive restaurant in San Francisco?

5. What did Eli and Charlie realize about Warm and Morris as they talked to the prospectors in Part IV?

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