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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the phrase that Morris used to describe the effects of Warm's formula?
(a) The Heavenly River.
(b) The Sunrise River.
(c) The River of Light.
(d) The Amazing River.

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

6. How did the Sisters brothers decide to split the profits of the gold hunting with Warm and Morris?
(a) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep 75% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would to go Warm and Morris
(b) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep 25% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.
(c) They agreed that the Sisters brothers would keep 90% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.
(d) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep half of whatever they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.

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

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

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

10. How did Warm get away from the Commodore at their last meeting?
(a) He poisoned the Commodore.
(b) He hit the Commodore in the head with a paperweight.
(c) He shot the Commodore.
(d) He drugged the Commodore.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Charlie and Eli discuss openly for the first time together on the way to Sacramento?

5. What did Eli and Charlie realize Warm and Morris had actually been carrying?

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