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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. Who did the prospector say was willing to pay for special pelt of a specific animal?
2. What did Eli give to the boy with the wagons as the Sisters brothers left the stream?
3. Who was the Commodore's scout who has gone ahead of Charlie and Eli to San Francisco on the Hermann Warm job?
4. What was the name of Eli Sisters's horse?
5. What did Charlie do to the prospector who would not stop jabbing Eli in the leg with his rifle?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Eli realize about how Charlie felt about killing the men whose tools he took to widen the window?
2. Why did Eli and Charlie kill the reddish-colored she-bear as they continued on their journey?
3. What change did the Commodore make to the job the Sisters Brothers were assigned to deal with Hermann Kermit Warm?
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. 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?
6. Why was Mayfield interested in and asking the Sisters brothers about a man with a limp in Oregon city?
7. Why did Eli ask the waiter in the restaurant in Jacksonville to cut down his meal portion and bring him more vegetables?
8. Who did Eli meet at Mayfield's hotel who helped him and warned him of the danger about to befall he and Charlie?
9. What did Charlie's treatment of the boy who as with the three wagons reveal about his character?
10. Why was Charlie so often sick and unable to travel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Eli describes his working with Charlie, Eli and Morris collecting gold from the River of Light as the happiest he would ever be as long as he lives. Afterwards, he comes to believe that men are "not meant to have access to this kind of satisfaction" (294). What do you think Eli means by this statement and what happens after this point in the novel that makes him feel that way?
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
How is Eli's reaction to his horse Tub's loss of an eye and his brother Charlie's loss of a hand similar? What do his reactions to both of these tragedies reveal about Eli's attitudes and character traits?
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