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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 wrong with the coffee the prospector near Warm's claim made for Eli and Charlie?
(a) It was burned.
(b) It was actually tea.
(c) It was actually dirt.
(d) It was poisoned.

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

3. What did Charlie and Eli conclude about Henry Morris's character?
(a) That he was an honorable man, even though he had abandoned his post with the Commodore.
(b) That he was a genius.
(c) That he was insane.
(d) That he was a criminal.

4. What did Eli try to convince Charlie to do over dinner at the expensive restaurant in San Francisco?
(a) Let Warm and Morris live and leave the service of the Commodore.
(b) Kill Warm and Morris and take the formula for themselves.
(c) Kill Morris and go into business with Warm.
(d) Kill Warm and go into business with Morris.

5. How did Charlie propose killing the Commodore?
(a) Poison.
(b) Shooting.
(c) Stabbing.
(d) With a pillow over his face while he slept.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Charlie surprised that Eli knew about how Charlie felt about the Commodore?

2. How did Charlie and Eli often come about their truces?

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

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

5. How did Warm perform a demonstration of his invention for Morris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Charlie and Eli say to Warm while he was pointing his gun at them?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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