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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 brothers pass on the way out of San Francisco?
2. What did the prospector tell Charlie and Eli about the camp of men they would pass on their way to Warm's claim?
3. What did the stable hand use to perform the surgery Tub needed?
4. What did Morris tell Warm he had to do to the Sisters brothers?
5. In his writings, how did Morris describe the way Warm had approached him for the first time?
Short Essay Questions
1. Charlie and Eli met a prospector right before reaching Warm's claim. What is wrong with the prospector's coffee?
2. What did the prospector tell Eli and Charlie about the camp of men they would pass on the way to Warm's claim?
3. How did the Sisters brothers eventually get the hotel manager to give them Morris's journal?
4. What did the formula do to Morris and Warm the first time they had used it?
5. What kind of game was the man with the patch engaging in when Eli and Charlie found him in his restaurant?
6. What did the hotel manager tell the Sisters brothers Henry Morris had left behind, and why were they so desperate to get their hands on it?
7. How did Eli feel after discovering that Tub had died?
8. How did Eli and Charlie escape from Warm even though he had his gun pointed at them?
9. What did Charlie and Eli give to Tub before splashing the alcohol in his eye socket?
10. What did the stable hand in San Francisco tell Eli had to be done to Tub?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do the dead beavers in the River of Light symbolize? Why does Eli go to the trouble of moving them?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring what the she-bear Charlie kills and Eli skins to take to Mayfield for prize money symbolizes. Make sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.
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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