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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Eli object to climbing through the shack's window with Charlie?
(a) Eli was heavier than Charlie and was afraid he would not fit through the window.
(b) Eli did not believe in curses.
(c) Eli was afraid of heights.
(d) Eli had a broken arm and could not get up to the window.

2. What did Charlie do the boy the brothers found with the abandoned wagons?
(a) He killed him.
(b) He hit him on the head with the stock of his rifle.
(c) He sent him off in the woods to die.
(d) He maimed him.

3. What did Eli hear Charlie saying in the bathtub that upset him?
(a) Charlie said Eli was stupid.
(b) Charlie said he hated Eli.
(c) Charlie said Eli was fat.
(d) Charlie said he would have separated from Eli long ago if Eli was not his brother.

4. What injury did Eli's horse Tub sustain as he was tied up at the shack with the string of beads?
(a) Tub's leg was broken.
(b) Tub's hoof was broken.
(c) Tub's eye was scratched and became red and swollen.
(d) Tub's stomach was torn.

5. How did Eli feel when they left the boy at the stream in Part II?
(a) Eli felt angry at the boy.
(b) Eli saw himself in the boy and felt guilty about leaving him.
(c) Eli thought the boy was doomed and felt he would remember the grim image of him standing there alone, forlorn.
(d) Eli cried because they had to leave the boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Charlie say he told Eli the bad news about the inn keeper?

2. What had happened to make the boy with the wagons fall on hard times?

3. What was the matter with the boy's horse in Part II?

4. What did the boy with the wagons tell the Sisters brothers he was traveling for?

5. What was the name of the ranch hand in the duel that Charlie and Eli watched?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Eli and Charlie kill the reddish-colored she-bear as they continued on their journey?

2. What did Eli realize about how Charlie felt about killing the men whose tools he took to widen the window?

3. What did Charlie and Eli do to Mayfield after they killed the trappers?

4. Why did Eli eventually have to cross the threshold of the old cabin even though he was afraid of the old woman's curse?

5. What was the problem with the weeping man Charlie and Eli meet very soon after they set off for California?

6. Why did Eli ask the waiter in the restaurant in Jacksonville to cut down his meal portion and bring him more vegetables?

7. What did Charlie's treatment of the boy who as with the three wagons reveal about his character?

8. Why was Mayfield interested in and asking the Sisters brothers about a man with a limp in Oregon city?

9. What change did the Commodore make to the job the Sisters Brothers were assigned to deal with Hermann Kermit Warm?

10. How did Eli treat the boy once he had surprisingly caught up with him and Charlie?

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