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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What flavor of pie was Eli's favorite?
2. What injury did Eli's horse Tub sustain as he was tied up at the shack with the string of beads?
3. How did Charlie get the tools he needed to cut a wider opening in the window of the shack?
4. Who was the boy with the grouping of wagons waiting for?
5. Who caught up with the Sisters brothers at the stream right after Charlie tried Eli's toothbrush?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Eli feel looking at the dead prospector who had been poking him in his injured leg?
2. Who did Eli meet at Mayfield's hotel who helped him and warned him of the danger about to befall he and Charlie?
3. Why did Eli and Charlie kill the reddish-colored she-bear as they continued on their journey?
4. How did Eli come upon a horse that was free for the taking?
5. Why did Eli ask the waiter in the restaurant in Jacksonville to cut down his meal portion and bring him more vegetables?
6. How did Eli try to break the tension with Charlie early on in their journey to California?
7. How did Eli treat the boy once he had surprisingly caught up with him and Charlie?
8. How did Eli know that Charlie was about to break some bad news to him after they left the Commodore's mansion and went to the Pig-King to drink?
9. Why did Eli eventually have to cross the threshold of the old cabin even though he was afraid of the old woman's curse?
10. Why was Mayfield interested in and asking the Sisters brothers about a man with a limp in Oregon city?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What did Eli learn about both himself and his brother Charlie as a result of the consequences of the old "witch" woman's stringing what the brothers think are a cursed string of beads across the threshold of the cabin they all share for a night (34)? Write an essay exploring why the brothers both seem to take the old woman seriously and what her beads across the threshold revealed about their characters.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the effect that reading Morris's journal, and the revelations about Morris's plans it revealed, in San Francisco had on Eli and Charlie. How do their different reactions to the journal's contents highlight their character differences?
Essay Topic 3
At the very beginning of their journey, Eli and Charlie come across a character known only as "the weeping man" (13). Though he makes brief conversation with the brothers and Eli tries to show him kindness, the reader never knows the source of his anguish. Write an essay exploring what the weeping man symbolizes at this point in the story.
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