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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 297 - 370).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bleak outpost does Lurie reminisce to Burke about them staying at one Christmas Eve?
(a) San Antonio, Texas.
(b) Mobile, Alabama.
(c) Graveneck, Wyoming.
(d) Jackson, Mississippi.

2. What does Lurie's spirit dream of doing one day that makes him very happy?
(a) Seeing Gabriela again.
(b) Seeing the sea again.
(c) Seeing Jolly again.
(d) Seeing more camels again.

3. Why does Emmett tell Nora he thought she wrote her rebuttal letter?
(a) For her father.
(b) For her conscience.
(c) For her constitution, but not to actually be printed.
(d) For her mother.

4. Who are the geologists Lurie and Jolly meet in Part V?
(a) Beecher and Sondland.
(b) Beecher and Jones.
(c) Tibbet and Jones.
(d) Tibbet and Beecher.

5. How many Indians does Nora say arrived at her house one day when Evelyn was five months old?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Emmett leave the homestead to go looking for?

2. What does Toby want his mother to see in the brush in Part I?

3. What does Toby ask Harlan Bell concerning his father Emmett in Part IV?

4. Which older member of her husband's family also lives with Nora?

5. What curiosity unites Emmett and Nora when they first meet?

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