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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. What was the name of Eli Sisters's horse?
(a) Tub.
(b) Jake.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Nimble.
2. What did the prospector jabbing Eli with his gun ask if Eli and Charlie were hunting?
(a) A rare white deer.
(b) A red-haired she-bear.
(c) A moose.
(d) A red-haired fox.
3. What did Eli see at the duel that upset him?
(a) Too many women.
(b) A larger crowd of people than he expected.
(c) A snake.
(d) A father bringing his small son to watch the violence.
4. What did Charlie say would likely become of Tub when Eli sold him?
(a) He would become a pet for a child.
(b) A farmer would buy him.
(c) He would work transporting medicine for a doctor.
(d) Stew meat.
5. What did Eli leave for the inn keeper that Charlie objected to?
(a) One hundred dollars.
(b) A five dollar piece.
(c) A gold watch.
(d) A pearl necklace.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Eli leave with the prostitute to give to the pale bookkeeper for him?
2. What did Eli resolve to do to try to win the inn keeper's affections?
3. What did Williams do in the duel that was shameful?
4. What did the doctor from the encampment give Eli that Eli was very impressed with throughout the book?
5. How did the pale bookkeeper protect Eli in Mayfield's hotel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What change did the Commodore make to the job the Sisters Brothers were assigned to deal with Hermann Kermit Warm?
2. Why did Charlie ask Eli to have a chat with the boy before they set off on their journey again?
3. Why did Eli ask the waiter in the restaurant in Jacksonville to cut down his meal portion and bring him more vegetables?
4. How did Eli come upon a horse that was free for the taking?
5. What did Charlie's treatment of the boy who as with the three wagons reveal about his character?
6. Why was Charlie so often sick and unable to travel?
7. What did Charlie and Eli do to Mayfield after they killed the trappers?
8. Who did Eli meet at Mayfield's hotel who helped him and warned him of the danger about to befall he and Charlie?
9. Why did Eli tell Charlie he had dreams about becoming a shop keeper someday?
10. What caused the injury to Eli's foot that he suffered early in the brothers' journey to California?
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