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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Blue Duck do with Lorena when the men fail to kill Gus?
(a) He gives her to the Kiowa.
(b) He sets her free.
(c) He takes her to Adobe Walls.
(d) He kills her.

2. Why did Call let the men stop working early the day Jake returns?
(a) He wants to get drunk with Jake.
(b) It is a holiday.
(c) He wants them to dig a well the next day.
(d) He wants them to rest before going to Mexico for the night to round up horses.

3. Who brought Lorena to Lonesome Dove?
(a) Tinkersley
(b) Gus
(c) Bolivar
(d) Pea Eye

4. Who sings a mournful ballad to the cattle?
(a) Soupy
(b) Newt
(c) Sean
(d) Needle

5. Who is Lorena sitting with at the Dry Bean when Dish arrives?
(a) Newt and Pea Eye
(b) Gus and Deets
(c) Jasper and Xavier
(d) Lippy and Jake

6. What is Deets looking for when he finds Lorena and Jake?
(a) Lorena's horse
(b) Call's watch
(c) His calvary cap
(d) A place for the herd to cross the river

7. What is the name of Roscoe's horse?
(a) Memphis
(b) Joe
(c) Hell Bitch
(d) Mouse

8. Who does Roscoe pick up on the way to find July?
(a) Joe
(b) Louisa
(c) Janey
(d) Blue Duck

9. What does Dish suggest to Jasper as they leave the Dry Bean together?
(a) He should hire on with the Hat Creek Cattle Company.
(b) He should kill Jake.
(c) He should go to San Antonio to get a job.
(d) He should find another sporting woman.

10. What does Gus find to use as cover from the attacking Kiowas?
(a) A depression in the ground from where a buffalo rolled
(b) A creek
(c) A hill
(d) An abandoned building

11. What causes Jake's thumb to get infected?
(a) A scorpion sting
(b) A splinter
(c) A mesquite thorn
(d) A cactus thorn

12. Where does Jake tell Lorena she belongs?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Gladewater
(c) San Antonio
(d) Lonesome Dove

13. How many cattle in all does Gus count?
(a) Thirty five head
(b) Eighteen hundred head
(c) Four thousand head
(d) Twenty-six hundred head

14. What does Lorena want Jake to do with the fifty dollars?
(a) Get her some new clothes
(b) Buy her a good horse
(c) Buy a train ticket to San Francisco
(d) Gamble and turn it into one hundred dollars

15. What does Newt do, as he watches Sean dying?
(a) He yells at Deets for choosing a bad crossing.
(b) He sings.
(c) He cries.
(d) He rides away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who returned during breakfast?

2. What does Janey do whenever Roscoe meets anyone on the trail?

3. Who decides to quit and return to Lonesome Dove?

4. What is the name of the rich Mexican bandit?

5. Who does Lorena reject after meeting Jake, starting the rumors that she is out of business?

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