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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 stable hand at the hotel need to tell Eli about Tub?
2. What did the owner at The Black Skull tell the Sisters brothers about Warm?
3. What did the prospector near Warm's claim tell Eli and Charlie that Warm and Morris had been carrying?
4. What did Eli say to Warm to try to dissuade him from shooting him and Charlie?
5. What was Charlie's reaction to reading Morris's writings about Warm?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the stable hand in San Francisco tell Eli had to be done to Tub?
2. What did the Sisters brothers learn from reading Morris's journal?
3. Charlie and Eli met a prospector right before reaching Warm's claim. What is wrong with the prospector's coffee?
4. 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?
5. What did Eli do that drew the stares of strangers as he and Charlie left San Francisco to find Warm's claim?
6. Why was the man with the eye patch who ran the restaurant Warm used to frequent so upset that Warm had left him out of his plans?
7. What happened when Charlie and Eli were staking out Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?
8. What did Charlie and Eli give to Tub before splashing the alcohol in his eye socket?
9. What did the formula do to Morris and Warm the first time they had used it?
10. What state did the Sisters brothers find Henry Morris's hotel room in in San Francisco?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
Immediately following the episode at Mayfield's, Charlie reminisces with Eli about the day Charlie killed their father when they were children. What does this episode tell the reader about the brothers' history together? What does it explain about how they came to be assassins? Write an essay explaining your answer, using examples from the text.
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