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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thanks to Phillip, everyone knows what about Nordstrom?
(a) He is moving.
(b) He does not know Sonia very well.
(c) He is getting divorced.
(d) He has given away all his money and is going on a long trip.

2. What does the company plan for Nordstrom's leaving?
(a) A party.
(b) A concert.
(c) A dance.
(d) A dinner.

3. When Alfred cannot reason with Tristan, where does the army send Tristan?
(a) To a mental hospital in New York.
(b) To battle.
(c) To a mental hospital in Paris.
(d) Home.

4. When Ludlow finally goes downstairs to dinner, what depresses him?
(a) Being alone.
(b) The sight of his wife sitting alone.
(c) The sight of the servants having nothing to do.
(d) The sight of the empty dining room.

5. Tristan and Susannah marry before Samuel's funeral against whose wishes?
(a) His own wishes.
(b) His mother's wishes.
(c) His father's wishes.
(d) Her mother's wishes.

6. He listens to the radio and longs to do what?
(a) Go to the Caribbean.
(b) See his daughter.
(c) Dance.
(d) Be with his wife.

7. What does the grief of Samuel's death do to Ludlow?
(a) It makes him ill.
(b) It depresses him.
(c) It ages him overnight.
(d) It almost kills him.

8. What habit does Nordstrom disclose?
(a) Dancing alone.
(b) Staring at the sea.
(c) Being preoccupied with sex.
(d) Cooking.

9. Captain Ludlow makes Tristan cooperate with the British war mission for what reason?
(a) So they can keep the ship.
(b) So they will be paid.
(c) So they can get a new ship.
(d) So they will survive.

10. Sarah offers him a line of cocaine, but what does Nordstrom want?
(a) To leave.
(b) To tell the police.
(c) To kiss Laura.
(d) To have sex with one of them.

11. Susannah's father, Arthur, comes to Montana for a sporting expedition and buys what as a wedding present?
(a) The neighboring ranch.
(b) A herd of horses.
(c) A house in town.
(d) New stallions.

12. At a celebratory dinner, they all watch another party which is rich from what?
(a) Smuggling opium.
(b) Smuggling cigarettes.
(c) Smuggling cattle.
(d) Smuggling liquor.

13. What does Tristan's ship, as its captain, escape?
(a) A German destroyer.
(b) An American cruise ship.
(c) A British war ship.
(d) A French battle ship.

14. The brothers' father, Ludlow, regrets what?
(a) Letting his sons go to war instead of sending them back to Harvard.
(b) Letting his Native American friend risk his life.
(c) Letting Samuel go to war instead of sending him back to Harvard.
(d) Letting his sons go hunting without him.

15. They stop for the night at a homesteader's home where Samuel does what?
(a) Takes an interest in the man's daughter.
(b) Helps with the farming.
(c) Meets his future wife.
(d) Becomes friends with the homesteader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alfred buy a house in Helena?

2. How does Sarah respond when Nordstrom makes a counter offer?

3. Where does Tristan quickly go to follow the Irishmen?

4. What does Nordstrom think about what Phillip says?

5. Tristan comes down with dysentery in dangerous seas and barely escapes with both his life and the ship. His fevers make him delirious. He stands on the bowspirit and hallucinates what?

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