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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22 - 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is making the white herd move so quickly?
(a) Someone on the ridge is throwing rocks at them.
(b) Someone on another ridge is spooking them with a white sheet.
(c) Someone on the ridge is shooting at them.
(d) Someone on the ridge is yelling.

2. What is Venters thinking about as he races across the sage?
(a) That he's ahead of Bess.
(b) He remembers stories he's heard about Bess.
(c) He remembers nursing Bess back to health.
(d) He thinks of his childhood.

3. What horses are Bess and Venters riding during their getaway?
(a) Bells and Night.
(b) Wrangle and Bells.
(c) Black Star and Night.
(d) 2 burros.

4. What does Oldring really do for a living?
(a) Pans and digs for gold.
(b) Farms.
(c) Owns a cattle ranch.
(d) Trains Arabian horses.

5. When Lassiter appears, how do Tull's men know that he is a gunman?
(a) He is wearing guns.
(b) He is riding a fast horse.
(c) He crouches in a gunman's position to ready for shooting.
(d) He is dressed all in black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the signs that Milly gave up the Mormon religion?

2. When Venters returns to Surprise Valley, who follows him?

3. What happens to Bess and Venters at the end of the race?

4. When Venters has his encounter on his way back into Cottonwoods, what horse is Jerry Card riding?

5. When Venters gets into the oval valley, who does he leave to watch his horse?

(see the answer key)

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