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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. How did the pale bookkeeper protect Eli in Mayfield's hotel?
(a) She hid him in the closet.
(b) She gave him an extra gun.
(c) She took him to a room to which only she held the key and locked him in.
(d) She spirited him out of the hotel and into the stable.

2. What did Eli realize about Charlie as they left the shack with the string of beads?
(a) Charlie felt badly about leaving Eli there alone.
(b) Charlie did not care about Eli's horse Tub.
(c) Charlie was not willing to cross the threshold to see if his brother was alright.
(d) Charlie wanted Eli to be the lead man.

3. What did the boy with the wagons ask Charlie and Eli for?
(a) To borrow a blanket.
(b) To be allowed to travel with them to the California border.
(c) To have more of their food.
(d) To borrow money.

4. What did Charlie do to the prospector who would not stop jabbing Eli in the leg with his rifle?
(a) He drowned him.
(b) He beat him badly.
(c) He tied him up and tortured him.
(d) He killed him by shooting him in the head.

5. How did Charlie and Eli think the Indian in Part II had died?
(a) Beating.
(b) Organ failure.
(c) Gunshot wound.
(d) Drowning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Mayfield bring in to dance for the Sisters brothers?

2. How did Eli react to the bad news Charlie told him about the inn keeper?

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

4. Who was the Commodore's scout who has gone ahead of Charlie and Eli to San Francisco on the Hermann Warm job?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Charlie and Eli do to Mayfield after they killed the trappers?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What change did the Commodore make to the job the Sisters Brothers were assigned to deal with Hermann Kermit Warm?

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

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

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