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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. Who won the duel?
(a) Stamm.
(b) Smith.
(c) Reynolds.
(d) Williams.

2. 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 was afraid of heights.
(c) Eli did not believe in curses.
(d) Eli had a broken arm and could not get up to the window.

3. What happened when the boy began to ride with the Sisters brothers in Part II?
(a) He fell off his horse.
(b) His horse died.
(c) He fell behind immediately.
(d) He got shot at by prospectors.

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

5. What did the boy with the wagons tell the Sisters brothers he was traveling for?
(a) He and his family were fortune tellers on their way to take advantage of prospectors in California.
(b) He and his family were horse traders and were on their way to California to trade horses.
(c) He and his family were on their way to California to try their luck at finding gold.
(d) He and his family were bakers on their way to start a new business in California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eli suggest doing for the boy with the wagons after he regained consciousness?

2. How did Eli alter his dinner order in the restaurant in Jacksonville?

3. How much money did the Sisters brothers let Mayfield keep out of Mayfield's own fortune?

4. What did Charlie do to the prospector who would not stop jabbing Eli in the leg with his rifle?

5. How did Charlie and Eli think the Indian in Part II had died?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Eli know that Charlie was about to break some bad news to him after they left the Commodore's mansion and went to the Pig-King to drink?

2. Why did Charlie pull a gun on Doctor Watts, the dentist who lanced Eli's face?

3. What happened between Eli and the female innkeeper where he and Charlie stopped for the night early in the journey?

4. Why did Charlie ask Eli to have a chat with the boy before they set off on their journey again?

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

6. Why were the Sisters brothers unsettled by the old woman in the cabin early on in their journey?

7. What was the trouble with the horses Eli references in the first chapter?

8. How did Eli try to break the tension with Charlie early on in their journey to California?

9. Why was Charlie so often sick and unable to travel?

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

(see the answer keys)

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