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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 position was Charlie to take on the Hermann Kermit Warm job?

2. Who was the boy with the grouping of wagons waiting for?

3. What did Charlie think the first time Eli persuaded him to try his toothbrush?

4. How did Eli react to the bad news Charlie told him about the inn keeper?

5. What flavor of pie was Eli's favorite?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Charlie pull a gun on Doctor Watts, the dentist who lanced Eli's face?

2. Why did Eli ask the waiter in the restaurant in Jacksonville to cut down his meal portion and bring him more vegetables?

3. Why was Charlie so often sick and unable to travel?

4. Why did Eli eventually have to cross the threshold of the old cabin even though he was afraid of the old woman's curse?

5. What caused the injury to Eli's foot that he suffered early in the brothers' journey to California?

6. Why was Mayfield interested in and asking the Sisters brothers about a man with a limp in Oregon city?

7. How did Eli try to break the tension with Charlie early on in their journey to California?

8. What did Charlie's treatment of the boy who as with the three wagons reveal about his character?

9. What change did the Commodore make to the job the Sisters Brothers were assigned to deal with Hermann Kermit Warm?

10. Why were the Sisters brothers unsettled by the old woman in the cabin early on in their journey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Eli hear his brother Charlie saying about him as he talks to himself in the bathtub and what effect does it have on Eli (57 - 8)? Write an essay exploring the difference between the relationship Eli would like to have with his brother and the one he actually has with his brother Charlie.

Essay Topic 2

What do the dead beavers in the River of Light symbolize? Why does Eli go to the trouble of moving them?

Essay Topic 3

Immediately following the episode at Mayfield's, Charlie reminisces with Eli about the day Charlie killed their father when they were children. What does this episode tell the reader about the brothers' history together? What does it explain about how they came to be assassins? Write an essay explaining your answer, using examples from the text.

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