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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Withersteen House?
(a) Jane's house.
(b) Lassiter's house.
(c) Tull's house.
(d) Biship Dyer's house.

3. When Lassiter appears, what does Jane offer that enrages Tull?
(a) Jane flirts with Lassiter.
(b) Jane asks Lassiter to stay for supper.
(c) Jane offers to water Lassiter's horse.
(d) Jane offers to marry Lassiter.

4. When Jane and Venters leave Lassiter at the grave and are walking back, they see a rider. Who?
(a) Rusters.
(b) The Masked Rider.
(c) Judkins the Gentile rider.
(d) Oldring.

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

6. What relationship did Bishop Dyer have with Jane's father?
(a) He was her father's best friend.
(b) He was a counselor to her father.
(c) He was a teacher to her father.
(d) He did not know Jane's father very well.

7. After the visit from the Bishop, what does Lassiter tell Jane about her employees?
(a) They want her house.
(b) They are poisoning her water.
(c) They want Black Star and Night.
(d) They are spying on her.

8. What is Lassiter known for?
(a) As a killer of Mormons.
(b) A man looking for gold.
(c) A rustler.
(d) The Masked Rider.

9. When Blake returns to Withersteen house, what does Blake need to tell Lassiter?
(a) That he is not there to spy on him and he won't kill him.
(b) That he hates him and will kill him if he gets the chance.
(c) That he knows Lassiter loves Jane.
(d) That he admires Lassiter.

10. Why are there four separate entrances to the Brandt's house?
(a) There are four wives and each have their own section of the house.
(b) Mr. Brandt lives in one, the other sections are for his wives, his children, and storage.
(c) The house was built at different times.
(d) The children are divided up by age.

11. Why has Mrs. Larkin always been afraid to give her daughter to Jane?
(a) She believes Jane would be mean to her daughter.
(b) She thinks her daughter will not go willingly.
(c) She thinks Jane would kidnap her daughter.
(d) She is afraid Jane would raise her as a Mormon.

12. According to Venters, what has Bishop Dyer done to hurt Venters?
(a) Took his guns.
(b) Sent out an edict to ruin him.
(c) Stole his best horse.
(d) Tried to convert him to Mormonism.

13. What was Jane's vow to Milly Erne?
(a) That if a man ever came to avenge her death, Jane would stop him.
(b) That she would find her daughter.
(c) That she would never let any murder happen again.
(d) That she would avenge her death.

14. When Jane tells Blake to go to the sage and get all her horses, what information does Blake have?
(a) The horses are eating.
(b) The horses are resting.
(c) All the horses are gone.
(d) The horses are back in the coral.

15. Jane sends Judkins to town to find out about the disappearance of her riders. What does Judkins discover?
(a) Her riders are now with Oldring.
(b) There is a band organized to hunt rustlers and Tull's man, Jerry Card, is the leader.
(c) Her riders left Utah.
(d) Her riders moved to Glaze.

Short Answer Questions

1. When confronted with the two riders in the canyon who shoot at him, what does Venters do?

2. After dinner, Venters goes to the grove to sleep. Who does he see riding through?

3. Why did Milly die?

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

5. Who founded the town of Cottonwood?

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