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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 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.

2. What had happened to make the boy with the wagons fall on hard times?
(a) One of the men he had been traveling with stole all their money and fled.
(b) He had lost a foot in an accident.
(c) He had contracted typhus and was dying.
(d) His father had died, leaving him alone.

3. What did the Sisters brothers do for a living?
(a) They were barmen.
(b) They were prospectors.
(c) They were soldiers.
(d) The were assassins for the Commodore.

4. What did Eli do with the money he got from Mayfield for the pelt?
(a) Secretly gave it to the pale bookkeeper.
(b) Gambled it away.
(c) Donated it to a charity.
(d) Spent it on brandy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much did Mayfield pay the Sisters brothers for the pelt?

3. What did the prospector jabbing Eli with his gun ask if Eli and Charlie were hunting?

4. How did Eli feel when they left the boy at the stream in Part II?

5. What is the most frequent reason Charlie could not travel during the brothers' journey to San Francisco?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Charlie's treatment of the boy who as with the three wagons reveal about his character?

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

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

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

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

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 come upon a horse that was free for the taking?

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

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

10. What did the boy with the wagons tell the Sisters Brothers about how he came to be alone?

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