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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the ferry Charlie and Eli boarded after leaving San Francisco?
(a) The Mermaid.
(b) Old Ulysses.
(c) The Eagle Eye.
(d) The James Joyce.

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

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

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

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

6. What did Morris tell Warm he had to do to the Sisters brothers?
(a) Turn them over to the law enforcement authorities.
(b) Shoot them immediately.
(c) Tie them up and flee.
(d) Send them back to the Commodore.

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

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

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

10. What did Warm tell Morris about how the Commodore had treated Warm?
(a) Warm told Morris the Commodore had tried to kill him when he would not give the Commodore the recipe for the formula.
(b) 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.
(c) Warm told Morris the Commodore was happy to fund his project and they were good business partners.
(d) Warm told Morris he had indeed stolen from the Commodore and that the Commodore had forgiven Warm.

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

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

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

14. What color was the formula?
(a) Bright Pink.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Purplish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the prospector tell Charlie and Eli about the camp of men they would pass on their way to Warm's claim?

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

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

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

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

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