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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jane asks Lassiter to stay and eat, why does Lassiter hesitate?
(a) He is shy.
(b) He won't like Jane's cooking.
(c) He knows that the Mormons won't like it and will cause trouble for Jane.
(d) He never eats indoors.

2. Venters and his dog, Ring, stay in the oval canyon and watch as rustlers enter an opening to another canyon. What does this prove?
(a) Nothing. The canyons all go in a circle.
(b) The Oval is really shaped like a hand with fingers.
(c) The opening is Oldring's den.
(d) There is water through the opening.

3. During dinner with Jane and Venters, Lassiter says he is looking for something. What is it?
(a) The grave of Milly Erne.
(b) Bern Venters.
(c) Something to eat.
(d) A place to stay the night.

4. What does Mary Brandt, Janes friend, urge her to do when Jane visits her?
(a) Marry Tull.
(b) Become a Gentile.
(c) Marry Bishop Dyer.
(d) Marry Venters.

5. When Venters takes Bess to Surprise Valley, she awakens and think she hears a waterfall. What is she really hearing?
(a) Ancient voices.
(b) Shooting in the distance.
(c) The wind in the valley.
(d) The stream running through the valley.

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

7. After dinner, Venters goes to the grove to sleep. Who does he see riding through?
(a) Oldring and the Masked Rider.
(b) Jane.
(c) Lassiter.
(d) Jane's women who work in her house.

8. While Venters is in Surprise Valley, Jane brings a guest into her home. Who?
(a) Fay alone.
(b) Lassiter.
(c) Fay and her sick mother.
(d) Bishop Dyer.

9. How does Venters nurse Bess's fever?
(a) Puts ice wrapped in a cloth on her face.
(b) Let's Bess soak her feet in the stream.
(c) Gives her broth.
(d) Washes her face, hands and wrists with cool water.

10. How many cattle are in the red herd?
(a) 250.
(b) 15.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 3.

11. When Venters realizes the Masked Rider is alive, he opens his shirt to look at the wound. What does Venters find?
(a) The wound is large and bleeding badly.
(b) A woman's breast.
(c) The pale body of a very young boy.
(d) The wound is in the stomach.

12. Venters goes to find the red herd, but he also wants to do something very specific. What is it?
(a) Find Oldring's retreat.
(b) Practice shooting.
(c) Camp and fish.
(d) Sleep under the stars.

13. When the Bishop is talking with Jane, Lassiter comes up behind him. What happens?
(a) Jane faints and Lassiter wings the Bishop when he draws his gun.
(b) Lassiter hits the Bishop on his head.
(c) Jane stands in front of the Bishop so Lassiter will not kill him.
(d) The Bishop faints.

14. What is the opening to Oldring's den?
(a) Underwater through a cave.
(b) A high pass.
(c) Through another maze of canyon outlets.
(d) Through the middle of the waterfall.

15. Lassiter rides into the white herd to calm them and stop the movement. What happens to Lassiter's horse?
(a) It is lost.
(b) It is successful.
(c) It is killed.
(d) It is blinded.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lassiter hears why Venters goes to Deception Pass, what is his reaction?

2. When Venters asks Bess what she did when she wasn't riding with Oldring, what does she say?

3. When Jane asks Lassiter to be her rider, what does that mean?

4. What was Jane's vow to Milly Erne?

5. Lassiter takes Jane to a lookout over her white herd and tells her the herd is moving fast. Why?

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