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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. How did Charlie and Eli often come about their truces?
(a) Through reminiscing about old times.
(b) Through reasonable, logical discussions.
(c) Through exchanging money.
(d) Through fist-fighting.

2. What did Warm tell Morris about how the Commodore had treated Warm?
(a) Warm told Morris the Commodore had tried to kill him when he would not give the Commodore the recipe for the formula.
(b) Warm told Morris he had indeed stolen from the Commodore and that the Commodore had forgiven Warm.
(c) Warm told Morris the Commodore had been angry with Warm at first but now he was willing to see if Warm's formula would really work.
(d) Warm told Morris the Commodore was happy to fund his project and they were good business partners.

3. What was Charlie's habit prior to the completion of an assignment from the Commodore?
(a) Polishing his pistol handles.
(b) Picking a fight with Eli.
(c) Wearing a tie.
(d) Brushing his horse.

4. How did Warm say his father had died?
(a) He was hit by a car.
(b) He drowned.
(c) He killed himself with an ax.
(d) He was poisoned.

5. What was Charlie surprised that Eli knew about how Charlie felt about the Commodore?
(a) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie wanted to become a business partner with the Commodore.
(b) Charlie was surprised that Eli knew he was hoping to one day usurp or take the Commodore's place.
(c) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie thought of the Commodore as a father.
(d) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie wanted to kill the Commodore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charlie and Eli discuss openly for the first time together on the way to Sacramento?

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

3. What was unusual about Eli's first sight of the harbor in San Francisco?

4. What did Charlie and Eli ask the prospector near Warm's claim?

5. What did Charlie tell Eli the Commodore had instructed him to do before killing Warm?

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

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

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

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

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

7. After reading Morris's journal, why do both Charlie and Eli have misgivings about going through with killing Warm for the Commodore?

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

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

10. What did Eli tell Charlie about their work together at their fancy dinner at The Golden Pearl in San Francisco?

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