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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 the pale bookkeeper give Eli to remember her by?
(a) A white handkerchief.
(b) A diamond earring.
(c) A length of blue silk.
(d) A brooch.

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 red-haired fox.
(d) A moose.

3. What did Eli suggest doing for the boy with the wagons after he regained consciousness?
(a) Sending him off in the woods to die.
(b) Beating him.
(c) Sharing their lunch with him.
(d) Killing him.

4. Who was the boy with the grouping of wagons waiting for?
(a) His friends.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

5. How did the inn keeper react when Eli told her who he and Charlie were?
(a) She was angry.
(b) She was impressed.
(c) She rapidly left the room.
(d) She began crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of liquor did both Charlie and Eli drink most often?

2. What kind of animal was in Eli's dream about the peculiar girl?

3. What did Williams do in the duel that was shameful?

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

5. What did Eli hear Charlie saying in the bathtub that upset him?

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. Who did Eli meet at Mayfield's hotel who helped him and warned him of the danger about to befall he and Charlie?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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