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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) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

2. What upset the stable hand so much when he and Eli tranquilized Tub?
(a) The horse died when he tried to tranquilize it.
(b) The horse collapsed on the men and the stable hand had thought they might be killed.
(c) The horse kicked the stable hand.
(d) The horse threw up.

3. What did Eli conclude and comment on to Charlie about the prospectors they had met on their journey?
(a) The solitude of working in the wild is not healthy for men.
(b) That the prospectors were all especially tough and hardy.
(c) That the prospectors were all alcoholics.
(d) The the prospectors did not have much longer to live.

4. What was the name of the restaurant where Warm took Morris to tell him about his plan?
(a) The Black Skull.
(b) The Tabbard Inn.
(c) The Bleeding Horse.
(d) The Science Club.

5. What did Eli compare killing Warm and Morris to?
(a) Killing animals.
(b) Killing criminals.
(c) Killing their own brothers.
(d) Killing women and children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charlie and Morris do together on the morning after the Sisters brothers struck their deal with Morris and Warm?

2. What did Eli and Charlie realize Warm and Morris had actually been carrying?

3. What did Charlie tell Eli about riding Tub after Tub's surgery?

4. Why did the owner at The Black Skull tell the Sisters brothers he would not try to find Warm?

5. What color beard did the hotel manager say the man Morris left with have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the prospector tell Eli and Charlie about the camp of men they would pass on the way to Warm's claim?

4. Why were there so many abandoned boats in the harbor at San Francisco?

5. How did Eli and Charlie escape from Warm even though he had his gun pointed at them?

6. Charlie and Eli met a prospector right before reaching Warm's claim. What is wrong with the prospector's coffee?

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

8. When Eli and Charlie were discussing how they would carry out the job on Warm, what did Eli say that surprised Charlie?

9. Why did Eli once again approach Warm and ask if he and Charlie could work with Warm and Morris?

10. How did the Sisters brothers eventually get the hotel manager to give them Morris's journal?

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