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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the prospector who approached Eli and Charlie near Warm's claim ask of the brothers?
(a) To borrow a gun.
(b) To borrow some money.
(c) To borrow a horse.
(d) To borrow their fire to make some coffee.

2. What did the brothers pass on the way out of San Francisco?
(a) A group of dead prospectors.
(b) A group of dead bears.
(c) A group of prostitutes.
(d) A dead, skinned and partially mutilated horse that had died the previous day.

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

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

5. Where did Warm wake up one day with no memory of how he had gotten there?
(a) In a brothel.
(b) In a militia barracks.
(c) In Europe.
(d) In a hospital.

6. 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 drew both his pistols.
(b) Warm whispered.
(c) Warm whistled.
(d) Warm yelled loudly.

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

8. How long did the hotel manager say Morris had been gone?
(a) Four days.
(b) Ten days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Four weeks.

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

10. What was the first prospector the brothers met in San Francisco carrying under his arm?
(a) A briefcase.
(b) A chicken.
(c) An umbrella.
(d) A bridle.

11. What did Warm tell Morris about how the Commodore had treated Warm?
(a) 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.
(b) Warm told Morris he had indeed stolen from the Commodore and that the Commodore had forgiven Warm.
(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 tried to kill him when he would not give the Commodore the recipe for the formula.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Warm manage to leave the militia?

2. What was Warm's wife's name?

3. What color was the woman's dress and scrap of fabric she passed between her hands at The Black Skull?

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

5. What did Warm tell Eli his father had done for a living?

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