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

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

3. What kind of illness overcame Eli right after he recovered from the venomous bite?
(a) A lung infection.
(b) A partial leg paralysis.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) A tooth infection that lead to his face swelling dramatically.

4. What did Williams do in the duel that was shameful?
(a) He hid behind his second.
(b) He cried.
(c) He shot into the crowd, wounding a woman.
(d) He ran away.

5. How much money did the Sisters brothers steal from Mayfield in gold?
(a) About $50,000.
(b) About $3,000.
(c) About $1,500.
(d) About $30,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Charlie get the tools he needed to cut a wider opening in the window of the shack?

3. Why did Eli change his mind and decide to keep Tub in Part II?

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

5. Why did Eli cross the threshold of the house with the string of beads?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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