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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Eli and Charlie realize Warm and Morris had actually been carrying?
(a) A huge amount of gold.
(b) Stolen money.
(c) Extra saddles.
(d) Barrels of the formula.

3. How did Charlie and Eli often come about their truces?
(a) Through exchanging money.
(b) Through fist-fighting.
(c) Through reasonable, logical discussions.
(d) Through reminiscing about old times.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In his writings, how did Morris describe the way Warm had approached him for the first time?
(a) Morris said Warm had been sad.
(b) Morris said Warm had been drunk and had smelled terrible.
(c) Morris said warm had been angry and abusive.
(d) Morris said Warm had been smooth and charming.

11. What was Charlie's reaction to reading Morris's writings about Warm?
(a) Charlie said Morris had always been fanciful and that the writings sounded like lies.
(b) Charlie said he believed what Morris had written.
(c) Charlie said he thought Morris was insane.
(d) Charlie said he wanted to check Morris's claims with the Commodore before doing anything else.

12. 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 kicked the stable hand.
(c) The horse collapsed on the men and the stable hand had thought they might be killed.
(d) The horse threw up.

13. 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.

14. 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 dead, skinned and partially mutilated horse that had died the previous day.
(d) A group of prostitutes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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