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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 and the inn keeper do together when he went into her room?
(a) Had sex.
(b) Brushed their teeth.
(c) Exchanged addresses.
(d) Kissed.

2. Who did Eli meet at Mayfield's hotel who he took a fancy to?
(a) A chamber maid.
(b) A pale bookkeeper.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A jewel thief.

3. What did Eli leave with the prostitute to give to the pale bookkeeper for him?
(a) The blue silk scarf.
(b) $100.
(c) A secret code.
(d) Precious gems.

4. What was the name of the ranch hand in the duel that Charlie and Eli watched?
(a) Stamm.
(b) Robinson.
(c) Williams.
(d) Smith.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Eli give to the boy with the wagons as the Sisters brothers left the stream?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Eli come upon a horse that was free for the taking?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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