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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 did Eli buy at the clothing store where Eli got an entire new outfit?
(a) Boots.
(b) A hat.
(c) A vest.
(d) Long underwear.

2. What was the name of the bar Charlie and Eli frequented in their home city?
(a) The Horse and Saw.
(b) The Pig-King.
(c) The Bleeding Horse.
(d) The King Pin.

3. 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.

4. What flavor of pie was Eli's favorite?
(a) Apple.
(b) Blueberry.
(c) Rhubarb.
(d) Cherry.

5. What did Charlie think the first time Eli persuaded him to try his toothbrush?
(a) Charlie was saddened by brushing his teeth.
(b) Charlie thought it was painful to brush his teeth.
(c) Charlie was impressed by how good it felt to brush his teeth.
(d) Charlie was indifferent to how it felt to brush his teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eli leave with the prostitute to give to the pale bookkeeper for him?

2. What did the old woman at the shack leave behind when she disappeared during the night?

3. What city was the Commodore's mansion in?

4. What did the Sisters brothers do for a living?

5. What did the pale bookkeeper give Eli to remember her by?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What caused the injury to Eli's foot that he suffered early in the brothers' journey to California?

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

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

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

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

8. How did Eli feel looking at the dead prospector who had been poking him in his injured leg?

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

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

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