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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 did the prospector jabbing Eli with his gun ask if Eli and Charlie were hunting?

2. Who did the Sisters brothers think the old woman at the shack was?

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

4. Who was the Commodore's scout who has gone ahead of Charlie and Eli to San Francisco on the Hermann Warm job?

5. What city was the Commodore's mansion in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What did the boy with the wagons tell the Sisters Brothers about how he came to be alone?

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

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

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 does Charlie's decision to dump the third barrel of the formula into the river against the protestations of the other men reveal about his character? What consequence does he suffer from his decision?

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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