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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 hotel manager say Morris had left behind that she now had in her possession?
2. How did Eli feel when Tub finally died?
3. What did Warm tell Eli his father had done for a living?
4. What did Warm do as he and the Sisters brothers moved closer to each other after Eli had once again proposed working together?
5. What did the brothers find in Morris's hotel room?
Short Essay Questions
1. What gave away Morris and Warm's position when Eli and Charlie went back to their camp?
2. What did Charlie and Eli give to Tub before splashing the alcohol in his eye socket?
3. What did Charlie and Eli say to Warm while he was pointing his gun at them?
4. What state did the Sisters brothers find Henry Morris's hotel room in in San Francisco?
5. What did Eli do that drew the stares of strangers as he and Charlie left San Francisco to find Warm's claim?
6. What did the Sisters brothers learn from reading Morris's journal?
7. 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?
8. What possible option did Charlie and Eli discuss that did not involve killing Warm and Morris?
9. Why were there so many abandoned boats in the harbor at San Francisco?
10. What kind of game was the man with the patch engaging in when Eli and Charlie found him in his restaurant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is Eli's reaction to his horse Tub's loss of an eye and his brother Charlie's loss of a hand similar? What do his reactions to both of these tragedies reveal about Eli's attitudes and character traits?
Essay Topic 2
Do you think the peculiar girl's (from Intermissions I and II) assertions that Eli is a "protected man" are borne out as the novel progresses (143)? Write an essay explaining why or why not.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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