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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 was the name of Charlie Sisters's horse?

2. What did Eli and the inn keeper do together when he went into her room?

3. What did Eli buy at the clothing store where Eli got an entire new outfit?

4. What did the inn keeper tell Eli about Charlie?

5. What kind of illness overcame Eli right after he recovered from the venomous bite?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Eli feel looking at the dead prospector who had been poking him in his injured leg?

3. What did Charlie and Eli do to Mayfield after they killed the trappers?

4. Who did Eli meet at Mayfield's hotel who helped him and warned him of the danger about to befall he and Charlie?

5. What was the problem with the weeping man Charlie and Eli meet very soon after they set off for California?

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

7. What happened between Eli and the female innkeeper where he and Charlie stopped for the night early in the journey?

8. How did Eli come upon a horse that was free for the taking?

9. Why did Eli tell Charlie he had dreams about becoming a shop keeper someday?

10. How did Eli treat the boy once he had surprisingly caught up with him and Charlie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think the peculiar girl's (from Intermissions I and II) assertions that Eli is a "protected man" are borne out as the novel progresses (143)? Write an essay explaining why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

What surprises Eli about the Commodore in his last moments before Eli kills him? What Eli say he had wanted to happen when he killed the Commodore, and why do you think it was important to him?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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