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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 color was the formula?
2. What did the brothers pass on the way out of San Francisco?
3. What was Warm's wife's name?
4. Why did Eli and Charlie have to leave Tub behind as they approached Warm's claim?
5. What upset the stable hand so much when he and Eli tranquilized Tub?
Short Essay Questions
1. What possible option did Charlie and Eli discuss that did not involve killing Warm and Morris?
2. How did Eli and Charlie escape from Warm even though he had his gun pointed at them?
3. What gave away Morris and Warm's position when Eli and Charlie went back to their camp?
4. How did Eli feel after discovering that Tub had died?
5. What happened when Charlie and Eli were staking out Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?
6. What kind of game was the man with the patch engaging in when Eli and Charlie found him in his restaurant?
7. After reading Morris's journal, why do both Charlie and Eli have misgivings about going through with killing Warm for the Commodore?
8. What did Eli tell Charlie about their work together at their fancy dinner at The Golden Pearl in San Francisco?
9. 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?
10. What did Eli see as the brothers were leaving San Francisco, and how did he feel about the city as they left?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What surprises Eli about the Commodore in his last moments before Eli kills him? What Eli say he had wanted to happen when he killed the Commodore, and why do you think it was important to him?
Essay Topic 2
How does Eli's first sight of the harbor and all the abandoned ships in San Francisco affect him? What does the sight and the vivid imagery deWitt employs in this scene reveal about the atmosphere surrounding the California Gold Rush?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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