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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 was the name of the boy's horse in Part II?
(a) Fast Eddie.
(b) Lucky Paul.
(c) Flash.
(d) Dirty Harry.

2. Who did the prospector say was willing to pay for special pelt of a specific animal?
(a) General Smith.
(b) Mayfield.
(c) The Mayor of Jacksonville.
(d) The Commodore.

3. What did the prospector jabbing Eli with his gun ask if Eli and Charlie were hunting?
(a) A moose.
(b) A red-haired she-bear.
(c) A rare white deer.
(d) A red-haired fox.

4. What did Charlie do the boy the brothers found with the abandoned wagons?
(a) He sent him off in the woods to die.
(b) He killed him.
(c) He hit him on the head with the stock of his rifle.
(d) He maimed him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eli buy at the clothing store where Eli got an entire new outfit?

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

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

4. What did the Sisters brothers do for a living?

5. What did the inn keeper tell Eli that hurt his feelings?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 eventually have to cross the threshold of the old cabin even though he was afraid of the old woman's curse?

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

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

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

9. Why did Eli and Charlie kill the reddish-colored she-bear as they continued on their journey?

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

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