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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 Charlie's reaction to reading Morris's writings about Warm?
(a) Charlie said he wanted to check Morris's claims with the Commodore before doing anything else.
(b) Charlie said Morris had always been fanciful and that the writings sounded like lies.
(c) Charlie said he thought Morris was insane.
(d) Charlie said he believed what Morris had written.

2. What did Charlie and Eli ask the prospector near Warm's claim?
(a) They asked him if they could borrow a horse.
(b) They asked him if he had seen the River of Light.
(c) They asked him how much gold he had found.
(d) They asked him if they had seen two men fitting Morris and Warm's description.

3. What effect did Warm's formula have on the body?
(a) The formula made the skin tickle slightly.
(b) The formula was very caustic and harmful to the skin and organs.
(c) The formula had no effect at all on the body.
(d) The formula made the skin turn red, but is painless.

4. What did the brothers pass on the way out of San Francisco?
(a) A group of dead bears.
(b) A group of prostitutes.
(c) A dead, skinned and partially mutilated horse that had died the previous day.
(d) A group of dead prospectors.

5. What was it that gave away Warm and Morris's position to the Sisters Brothers at first?
(a) Morris was whistling.
(b) Warm was singing.
(c) Warm let off a shot from his pistol by mistake.
(d) A beaver tried to get into a barrel of formula, and either Warm or Morris threw a rock to shoo it away.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Warm manage to leave the militia?

2. What did Eli say to Warm to try to dissuade him from shooting him and Charlie?

3. What did the Sisters brothers tell Warm about how they learned about his formula?

4. How did the Sisters brothers decide to split the profits of the gold hunting with Warm and Morris?

5. What upset the stable hand so much when he and Eli tranquilized Tub?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What happened when Charlie and Eli were staking out Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?

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

8. What kind of game was the man with the patch engaging in when Eli and Charlie found him in his restaurant?

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

10. What state did the Sisters brothers find Henry Morris's hotel room in in San Francisco?

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