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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Eli and Charlie realize about Warm and Morris as they talked to the prospectors in Part IV?
(a) Warm and Morris were distraught.
(b) Warm and Morris were drunk.
(c) Warm and Morris were angry.
(d) Warm and Morris were tired.

2. What was Charlie's reaction to reading Morris's writings about Warm?
(a) Charlie said he believed what Morris had written.
(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 wanted to check Morris's claims with the Commodore before doing anything else.

3. What was Warm's wife's name?
(a) Clara.
(b) Eunice.
(c) Clarice.
(d) Eleanor.

4. What color beard did the hotel manager say the man Morris left with have?
(a) Black.
(b) Gray.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

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

6. What did Charlie tell Eli about riding Tub after Tub's surgery?
(a) Eli should get a new horse.
(b) Eli should kill Tub.
(c) Eli should push Tub harder so he would go faster.
(d) It was too soon to ride Tub.

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

8. What is the name of the very expensive restaurant where Eli and Charlie ate in San Francisco?
(a) The Mermaid.
(b) The Pig-King.
(c) The Bleeding Horse.
(d) The Golden Pearl.

9. 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 that the Sisters brothers would keep 90% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.
(c) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep half of whatever they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.
(d) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep 25% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.

10. What did the stable hand use to perform the surgery Tub needed?
(a) A scalpel.
(b) A spoon.
(c) A needle.
(d) A spade.

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

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

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

14. What did Eli tell Charlie just before they left San Francisco for Sacramento to find Warm and Morris?
(a) He was going to kill Warm and Morris alone.
(b) He was going to kill the Commodore next.
(c) He was dying of cancer.
(d) This would be his last job.

15. How did Eli feel when Tub finally died?
(a) Eli felt happy.
(b) Eli felt angry.
(c) Eli felt relieved.
(d) Eli felt terribly sad.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Warm catch Eli and Charlie off-guard as they approached Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?

3. What was it that gave away Warm and Morris's position to the Sisters Brothers at first?

4. How did the Sisters brothers manage to escape from Warm upon their first meeting?

5. What did Warm do as he and the Sisters brothers moved closer to each other after Eli had once again proposed working together?

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