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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) Bill Hollis.
(b) Pedro Garcia.
(c) The Colonel.
(d) Niles Gilbert.

2. Where does Eli go to live with his stepmother in Chapter Thirty-four?
(a) Houston.
(b) Bastrop.
(c) Austin.
(d) Dallas.

3. What is the date of Peter’s first diary entry in Chapter Thirty-nine?
(a) August 12, 1915.
(b) July 7, 1917.
(c) March 2, 1836.
(d) April 6, 1917.

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

5. What unit does Eli sign up with during the U.S. Civil War?
(a) The Union Army.
(b) The Confederate Navy.
(c) The Mounted Rifles.
(d) The Union Navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jeanne’s business partner that has moved into Hank’s office in Chapter Forty-seven?

2. When does Eli McCullough describe a dozen Spanish cattle landing in the New World in Chapter Fifty-nine?

3. In what year is Chapter Thirty-seven set?

4. Whose story is related in Chapter Sixty-one?

5. What does Mountain of Rocks ask Eli to leave him when he is traded to the Comancheros in Chapter Thirty-one?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss Jeanne’s relationship with motherhood, as seen in Chapter Thirty-eight. Does Jeanne enjoy being a mother?

3. What is the earliest conflict between the Garcias and the McCulloughs, as illustrated in Chapter Fifty-nine?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does the relationship between Eli and Ellen develop in Chapters Thirty-three through Thirty-seven?

10. Why do you think the Colonel wants Maria out of his home in Chapter Thirty-three?

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