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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 Sisters brothers decide to split the profits of the gold hunting with Warm and Morris?

2. What upset the stable hand so much when he and Eli tranquilized Tub?

3. What did Eli tell Charlie he thought about the prospectors whose camp they passed on the way to Warm's claim?

4. Why did the owner at The Black Skull tell the Sisters brothers he would not try to find Warm?

5. What did Charlie and Morris do together on the morning after the Sisters brothers struck their deal with Morris and Warm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Charlie and Eli say to Warm while he was pointing his gun at them?

2. How did the Sisters brothers eventually get the hotel manager to give them Morris's journal?

3. What possible option did Charlie and Eli discuss that did not involve killing Warm and Morris?

4. What did the stable hand in San Francisco tell Eli had to be done to Tub?

5. How did Eli feel after discovering that Tub had died?

6. What did the Sisters brothers learn from reading Morris's journal?

7. What did Eli do that drew the stares of strangers as he and Charlie left San Francisco to find Warm's claim?

8. 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?

9. How did Eli and Charlie escape from Warm even though he had his gun pointed at them?

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

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.

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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