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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jeanne describe her feelings about motherhood in Chapter Thirty-eight?
(a) She feels freed by motherhood.
(b) She feels overjoyed by motherhood.
(c) She feels empowered by motherhood.
(d) She feels stifled by motherhood.

2. When does Eli say that their commission as Rangers ran out in Chapter Forty-six?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1860.

3. How much money does the narrator say George Brown sold out of the oil business for in Chapter Forty-seven?
(a) $25 million.
(b) $36 million.
(c) $58 million.
(d) $10 million.

4. Whose story is related in Chapter Sixty-one?
(a) Peter's.
(b) Ulises'.
(c) Eli's.
(d) Jeanne's.

5. How many members of Toshaway’s band are still living in the beginning of Chapter Thirty-one?
(a) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 100.

6. What is the date of Peter’s first diary entry in Chapter Twenty-four?
(a) August 16, 1915.
(b) March 25, 1917.
(c) March 2, 1836.
(d) March 3, 2012.

7. Jeanne thinks to herself in Chapter Sixty, “Dead people did not have voices and this made them” what?
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Silent.
(d) Solitary.

8. Who is the author of the novel The Virginian?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Owen Wister.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Walt Whitman.

9. Who does Hank believe will kill him if he becomes sexually involved with Jeanne in Chapter Thirty-two?
(a) Peter.
(b) Clint.
(c) Phineas.
(d) Eli.

10. What is Eli’s reply when Peter tells him in Chapter Fifty-one, “I’m embarrassed by you”?
(a) I don't even care.
(b) I don't understand why.
(c) The feeling is mutual.
(d) I love you.

11. When does Eli McCullough describe a dozen Spanish cattle landing in the New World in Chapter Fifty-nine?
(a) 1498.
(b) 1521.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1600.

12. When was the first oil well drilled in Iraq, according to the narrator in Chapter Thirty-five?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1927.

13. When did the American Civil War end?
(a) July 4, 1917.
(b) May 9, 1865.
(c) March 2, 1836.
(d) April 6, 1866.

14. How much money does the manager from Humble Oil offer Jeanne during their meeting in Chapter Twenty-six?
(a) $4 million plus 25% royalties.
(b) $5 million plus 50% royalties.
(c) $2 million plus 10% royalties.
(d) $10 million plus 40% royalties.

15. What is the date of Peter’s first diary entry in Chapter Thirty-six?
(a) June 22, 1917.
(b) March 2, 1836.
(c) July 4, 1917.
(d) June 25, 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Judge Black’s daughter that Eli becomes involved with romantically in Chapter Forty-six?

2. Who does Eli recognize among the Indians that he is trailing with the Rangers in Chapter Forty-three?

3. What are the names of Jeanne’s grandsons?

4. Who is Jeanne’s lover that she recalls leaving her in Chapter Sixty-four?

5. How old was Ulises Garcia when his father died?

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