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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 color was the woman's dress and scrap of fabric she passed between her hands at The Black Skull?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

2. What did Eli feed Tub on the ferry?
(a) Apples.
(b) Whisky.
(c) Oatmeal.
(d) Barley.

3. What drink did Charlie and Eli have at the expensive restaurant in San Francisco?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Whisky.
(c) Gin.
(d) Brandy.

4. What is the name of the very expensive restaurant where Eli and Charlie ate in San Francisco?
(a) The Golden Pearl.
(b) The Mermaid.
(c) The Pig-King.
(d) The Bleeding Horse.

5. What did the Sisters brothers do with the bodies of the dead prospectors at Warm's camp?
(a) They burned them.
(b) They threw them in a ravine.
(c) They threw them in the river.
(d) They buried them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Charlie's reaction to reading Morris's writings about Warm?

2. Why did Warm tell Morris he wanted Morris to go into business with him?

3. What did the brothers find in Morris's hotel room?

4. What was the phrase that Morris used to describe the effects of Warm's formula?

5. What did the prospector near Warm's claim tell Eli and Charlie that Warm and Morris had been carrying?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the hotel manager tell the Sisters brothers Henry Morris had left behind, and why were they so desperate to get their hands on it?

2. What did the Sisters brothers learn from reading Morris's journal?

3. What did the formula do to Morris and Warm the first time they had used it?

4. What did Charlie and Eli give to Tub before splashing the alcohol in his eye socket?

5. What did Eli see as the brothers were leaving San Francisco, and how did he feel about the city as they left?

6. What gave away Morris and Warm's position when Eli and Charlie went back to their camp?

7. How did Eli feel after discovering that Tub had died?

8. Why was the man with the eye patch who ran the restaurant Warm used to frequent so upset that Warm had left him out of his plans?

9. What did Eli do that drew the stares of strangers as he and Charlie left San Francisco to find Warm's claim?

10. What did the stable hand in San Francisco tell Eli had to be done to Tub?

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