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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. How did the inn keeper react when Eli told her who he and Charlie were?
2. Who was the Commodore's scout who has gone ahead of Charlie and Eli to San Francisco on the Hermann Warm job?
3. What color is the horse Eli finds in their travels in Part II and decides to take as his own?
4. What did the doctor from the encampment give Eli that Eli was very impressed with throughout the book?
5. How much money did the Sisters brothers let Mayfield keep out of Mayfield's own fortune?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Charlie pull a gun on Doctor Watts, the dentist who lanced Eli's face?
2. How did Eli feel looking at the dead prospector who had been poking him in his injured leg?
3. Why did Eli eventually have to cross the threshold of the old cabin even though he was afraid of the old woman's curse?
4. How did Eli treat the boy once he had surprisingly caught up with him 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 did Eli tell Charlie he had dreams about becoming a shop keeper someday?
7. Why was Mayfield interested in and asking the Sisters brothers about a man with a limp in Oregon city?
8. What caused the injury to Eli's foot that he suffered early in the brothers' journey to California?
9. What did the boy with the wagons tell the Sisters Brothers about how he came to be alone?
10. What change did the Commodore make to the job the Sisters Brothers were assigned to deal with Hermann Kermit Warm?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
deWitt often employs dry humor in dark situations, as when Eli Sisters is discussing ending his killing career with his brother (243). What purpose do you think this humor serves in a novel dealing largely with serious and tragic themes? Write an essay explaining your answer, using specific references and examples of deWitt's humorous language from the text.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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