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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 Eli feed Tub on the ferry?
2. What did Charlie and Morris do together on the morning after the Sisters brothers struck their deal with Morris and Warm?
3. What was the name of the restaurant where Warm took Morris to tell him about his plan?
4. What type of animal became seasick on the ferry voyage?
5. What did Eli and Charlie realize about Warm and Morris as they talked to the prospectors in Part IV?
Short Essay Questions
1. After reading Morris's journal, why do both Charlie and Eli have misgivings about going through with killing Warm for the Commodore?
2. What did Eli see as the brothers were leaving San Francisco, and how did he feel about the city as they left?
3. What gave away Morris and Warm's position when Eli and Charlie went back to their camp?
4. How did the Sisters brothers eventually get the hotel manager to give them Morris's journal?
5. What did the stable hand in San Francisco tell Eli had to be done to Tub?
6. Why did Eli once again approach Warm and ask if he and Charlie could work with Warm and Morris?
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 Eli do that drew the stares of strangers as he and Charlie left San Francisco to find Warm's claim?
10. What did the formula do to Morris and Warm the first time they had used it?
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
Why does Eli change his mind at the last minute and keep Tub instead of trading him in for the far superior black horse? Write an essay exploring this change of heart and what it says about Eli's core character traits.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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