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

2. Who threatened the Sisters brothers at Mayfield's hotel, and framed them for stealing the pelt?
(a) A group of jewel thieves.
(b) A group of stable boys.
(c) A group of trappers.
(d) A group of barmen.

3. What did Charlie tell the boy with the wagons they had done to his father?
(a) Stolen his money.
(b) Killed him.
(c) Taken him to the hospital.
(d) Maimed him.

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

5. How much did Mayfield pay the Sisters brothers for the pelt?
(a) $20.
(b) $200.
(c) $2,000.
(d) $500.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eli and the inn keeper do together when he went into her room?

2. What did Williams do in the duel that was shameful?

3. How much money did the Sisters brothers steal from Mayfield in gold?

4. What kind of illness overcame Eli right after he recovered from the venomous bite?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. What happened between Eli and the female innkeeper where he and Charlie stopped for the night early in the journey?

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

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

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

8. How did Eli know that Charlie was about to break some bad news to him after they left the Commodore's mansion and went to the Pig-King to drink?

9. Why did Charlie pull a gun on Doctor Watts, the dentist who lanced Eli's face?

10. How did Eli treat the boy once he had surprisingly caught up with him and Charlie?

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