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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 formula?
(a) Purplish.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Bright Pink.
(d) Green.

2. What did Warm tell Eli his father had done for a living?
(a) He was a butcher.
(b) He was an inventor.
(c) He was a military man.
(d) He was a chef.

3. What was the name of the ferry Charlie and Eli boarded after leaving San Francisco?
(a) The Mermaid.
(b) Old Ulysses.
(c) The James Joyce.
(d) The Eagle Eye.

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

5. What did Eli tell Charlie just before they left San Francisco for Sacramento to find Warm and Morris?
(a) He was dying of cancer.
(b) He was going to kill Warm and Morris alone.
(c) He was going to kill the Commodore next.
(d) This would be his last job.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Eli shout at Charlie about as they mounted their horses and left San Francisco for Sacramento?

3. What is the name of the very expensive restaurant where Eli and Charlie ate in San Francisco?

4. What did the brothers pass on the way out of San Francisco?

5. What did the stable hand at the hotel need to tell Eli about Tub?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the formula do to Morris and Warm the first time they had used 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 kind of game was the man with the patch engaging in when Eli and Charlie found him in his restaurant?

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

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

6. What gave away Morris and Warm's position when Eli and Charlie went back to their camp?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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