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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. Where did the Sisters brothers leave the gold they had stolen from Mayfield?
(a) In Mayfield's safe.
(b) In a safe deposit box at the local bank.
(c) In the pale bookkeeper's bedroom.
(d) Underneath a potbellied stove in the corner of the Mayfield hotel.

2. What did Charlie tell the boy with the wagons they had done to his father?
(a) Killed him.
(b) Maimed him.
(c) Taken him to the hospital.
(d) Stolen his money.

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

4. 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 bakers on their way to start a new business in California.
(d) He and his family were on their way to California to try their luck at finding gold.

5. How did Charlie get the tools he needed to cut a wider opening in the window of the shack?
(a) Charlie bartered for the tools with prospectors.
(b) Charlie bought the tools at a trading post.
(c) Charlie killed five prospectors for their tools.
(d) Charlie took the tools from sleeping Indians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who threatened the Sisters brothers at Mayfield's hotel, and framed them for stealing the pelt?

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

4. What did Eli see at the duel that upset him?

5. What did Eli and the inn keeper do together when he went into her room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Eli tell Charlie he had dreams about becoming a shop keeper someday?

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

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

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

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

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