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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 do to the prospector who would not stop jabbing Eli in the leg with his rifle?
(a) He drowned him.
(b) He beat him badly.
(c) He killed him by shooting him in the head.
(d) He tied him up and tortured him.

2. What was the name of the bar Charlie and Eli frequented in their home city?
(a) The King Pin.
(b) The Bleeding Horse.
(c) The Horse and Saw.
(d) The Pig-King.

3. Who did the Sisters brothers think the old woman at the shack was?
(a) Their mother.
(b) A witch or a gypsy.
(c) A thief.
(d) A landowner.

4. What kind of creature bit Eli, sending him into an illness of fever?
(a) A snake.
(b) A raccoon.
(c) A scorpion.
(d) A spider.

5. What did Eli resolve to do to try to win the inn keeper's affections?
(a) Lose 25 pounds.
(b) Become an honest man.
(c) Make more money.
(d) Quit drinking.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What injury did Eli's horse Tub sustain as he was tied up at the shack with the string of beads?

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

4. Where did the Sisters brothers leave the gold they had stolen from Mayfield?

5. Who did Eli meet at Mayfield's hotel who he took a fancy to?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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