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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 Warm get away from the Commodore at their last meeting?
2. What did the owner at The Black Skull tell the Sisters brothers about Warm?
3. What was Charlie's reaction to reading Morris's writings about Warm?
4. What did the Sisters brothers see when they approached Warm and Morris's camp the second time?
5. What did Eli and Charlie realize about Warm and Morris as they talked to the prospectors in Part IV?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened when Charlie and Eli were staking out Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?
2. How did Eli feel after discovering that Tub had died?
3. What did Charlie and Eli say to Warm while he was pointing his gun at them?
4. Why were there so many abandoned boats in the harbor at San Francisco?
5. What did Eli see as the brothers were leaving San Francisco, and how did he feel about the city as they left?
6. Charlie and Eli met a prospector right before reaching Warm's claim. What is wrong with the prospector's coffee?
7. What did Eli do that drew the stares of strangers as he and Charlie left San Francisco to find Warm's claim?
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. Why did Eli once again approach Warm and ask if he and Charlie could work with Warm and Morris?
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
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 3
What do the various unnamed prospectors the Sisters Brothers meet on their journey reveal about life on the U.S. West Coast at the time of the California Gold Rush? Write an essay analyzing how deWitt uses the prospectors to help establish the setting of the story.
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