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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Peter describe as renting out his pig stall for eighty dollars a week in Chapter Forty-five?
(a) Niles Gilbert.
(b) The Colonel.
(c) Bill Hollis.
(d) Pedro Garcia.

2. By what does slang term does Sally call Maria when she tells Peter she is coming to visit in Chapter Fifty-one?
(a) Conquistador.
(b) Dolly.
(c) Bambino.
(d) Pelado.

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

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

5. What is the date of Peter’s first diary entry in Chapter Fifty-four?
(a) June 22, 1917.
(b) August 12, 1915.
(c) August 8, 1917.
(d) March 2, 1836.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hank doing when he is killed in Chapter Forty-four?

2. When is Chapter Thirty-one set?

3. What arrives in the mail on the same day that Peter sends his sons to war in Chapter Twenty-four?

4. How much money does the narrator say George Brown sold out of the oil business for in Chapter Forty-seven?

5. What is the date of Peter’s first diary entry in Chapter Thirty-nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads up to Eli’s arrest in Chapter Thirty-seven? Who turns Eli in?

2. How does Eli help the captive buffalo hunter in Chapter Twenty-five?

3. Where is Eli working in 1864? How is his home described in Chapter Forty-nine?

4. How does Eli return from Indian captivity to civilization in Chapter Thirty-one?

5. How is Jeanne’s relationship with her grandsons described in Chapter Sixty?

6. What irony can be seen in Prairie Flower’s death in Chapter Twenty-eight?

7. What circumstances lead to Peter’s isolation on the ranch in Chapter Twenty-four?

8. Why do Eli’s troops raid the Federal soldiers in Chapter Fifty-two? What happens during the raid?

9. What does Eli gain from the raid in Chapter Fifty-two? What do the Indians gain?

10. Why does Peter express unhappiness about the discovery of oil on his family’s land?

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