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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. How much money does Peter learn that his family gave to Maria to leave in Chapter Fifty-one?
(a) $100,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $20,000.

2. In what year is Chapter Thirty-seven set?
(a) 1852.
(b) 2012.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1922.

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

4. What is the date of Peter’s first journal entry in Chapter Forty-eight?
(a) August 1, 1917.
(b) March 2, 1836.
(c) November 1, 1915.
(d) July 4, 1917.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the U.S. President when the U.S. entered World War I?

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

3. Who is helping Peter to look for Maria in Chapter Fifty-four?

4. What was the name of Maria’s father?

5. Jeanne thinks to herself in Chapter Sixty, “Dead people did not have voices and this made them” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author illustrate Jeanne’s political connections in Chapter Thirty-five?

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

3. What events and circumstances lead Eli to the cattle industry in Chapter Fifty-five?

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

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

6. How is the character of Ulises Garcia introduced in Chapter Fifty-seven? What is Ulises’s objective?

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

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

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

10. Describe Eli’s narrative tone in Chapter Forty. What are examples of humor used in the chapter?

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