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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 did Eli and Charlie realize about Warm and Morris as they talked to the prospectors in Part IV?
(a) Warm and Morris were distraught.
(b) Warm and Morris were tired.
(c) Warm and Morris were angry.
(d) Warm and Morris were drunk.

2. When Eli got back to where they had left Tub in Part IV, what had become of his horse?
(a) Tub had been shot by a passerby.
(b) Tub had fallen down a steep hill and died.
(c) Tub had found the strength to get up and flee.
(d) Tub had been stolen by a passerby.

3. What did Charlie tell Eli about riding Tub after Tub's surgery?
(a) Eli should push Tub harder so he would go faster.
(b) Eli should kill Tub.
(c) It was too soon to ride Tub.
(d) Eli should get a new horse.

4. How did Eli feel when Tub finally died?
(a) Eli felt happy.
(b) Eli felt angry.
(c) Eli felt terribly sad.
(d) Eli felt relieved.

5. How did the Sisters brothers decide to split the profits of the gold hunting with Warm and Morris?
(a) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep 75% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would to go Warm and Morris
(b) They agreed that the Sisters brothers would keep 90% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.
(c) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep 25% of what they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.
(d) They agreed the Sisters brothers would keep half of whatever they pulled from the river, and the rest would go to Warm and Morris.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Warm catch Eli and Charlie off-guard as they approached Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?

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

3. What effect did Warm's formula have on the body?

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

5. What was it that gave away Warm and Morris's position to the Sisters Brothers at first?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What possible option did Charlie and Eli discuss that did not involve killing Warm and Morris?

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

6. What happened when Charlie and Eli were staking out Warm and Morris's camp at 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 Eli see as the brothers were leaving San Francisco, and how did he feel about the city as they left?

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

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

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