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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 was the name of the ferry Charlie and Eli boarded after leaving San Francisco?
2. What was the phrase that Morris used to describe the effects of Warm's formula?
3. What did the owner of the restaurant Warm took Morris to look like?
4. What color was the woman's dress and scrap of fabric she passed between her hands at The Black Skull?
5. What did Warm tell Eli his father had done for a living?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kind of game was the man with the patch engaging in when Eli and Charlie found him in his restaurant?
2. What did Charlie and Eli say to Warm while he was pointing his gun at them?
3. What did Eli see as the brothers were leaving San Francisco, and how did he feel about the city as they left?
4. Why were there so many abandoned boats in the harbor at San Francisco?
5. 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?
6. What did the Sisters brothers learn from reading Morris's journal?
7. How did Eli and Charlie escape from Warm even though he had his gun pointed at them?
8. What did Charlie and Eli give to Tub before splashing the alcohol in his eye socket?
9. What did the prospector tell Eli and Charlie about the camp of men they would pass on the way to Warm's claim?
10. What happened when Charlie and Eli were staking out Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring why Eli seems to act so rashly in firing his gun in the room the pale bookkeeper takes him to in order to protect him from the trappers at Mayfield's hotel (132). Use specific references from the text to support your answer.
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
What do the dead beavers in the River of Light symbolize? Why does Eli go to the trouble of moving them?
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