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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis think of as the train that passes by his house every night?
(a) The Terror.
(b) The Midnight Train.
(c) The Thunderball Express.
(d) The Night Train.

2. What tribe are Lewis and his friends from?
(a) Apache.
(b) Blackfeet.
(c) Crow.
(d) Cherokee.

3. What is unusual about the young elk Lewis kills?
(a) She is moving even after Lewis shoots her five times.
(b) It takes three shots to kill her.
(c) The other elk come to protect her.
(d) She can sing.

4. What kind of car does Shaney drive?
(a) A Saturn.
(b) A BMW.
(c) A yellow Toyota truck. .
(d) A Ford Fiesta.

5. What does Lewis tell Peta about the Thanksgiving Classic that he has never told anyone before?
(a) The elk he shot had had triplets.
(b) The elk he shot had been able to talk.
(c) The elk he shot had been able to sing.
(d) The elk he shot had been pregnant.

6. What does Lewis's wife do for a living?
(a) Air traffic controller.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Postal worker.
(d) Dancer.

7. Who is the game warden on the reservation?
(a) Ryan Spalding.
(b) Denny Pease.
(c) Michael Barber.
(d) Rance Rylands.

8. Why does Lewis hesitate at first to tell Peta about the story of the Thanksgiving Classic?
(a) She is a vegetarian who is squeamish about hunting.
(b) She likes to hunt too, and she would be angry that he had hunted on restricted land.
(c) She had asked him not to hunt elk and he had gone against her wishes.
(d) She had told him to please not hunt any more and he had gone against her wishes.

9. How is Harley seriously injured in Part I?
(a) Another dog attacks him.
(b) He steps on a tack.
(c) He is struck by lightening.
(d) He throttles himself with his chain when he tries to jump the fence.

10. What in Lewis's new rental house blinks on and off?
(a) The microwave clock.
(b) The spotlight over the mantle.
(c) The coffee maker.
(d) The outside deck light.

11. What is a way to tell who the ghost elk is?
(a) If they have ivory teeth.
(b) If they have velvet on their horns.
(c) If they have whites in their eyes.
(d) If they have yellow around the iris of their eyes.

12. What does Lewis pull from Peta's stomach?
(a) A small elk calf.
(b) A mug.
(c) An egg.
(d) A plant seed.

13. How does Peta die?
(a) Lewis shoots her.
(b) She falls off the ladder and cracks her head on the brick fireplace.
(c) She dies in a car accident.
(d) Lewis stabs her.

14. Why did Lewis ask Denny to keep the meat of the young elk only?
(a) He feels a responsibility to feed his starving family.
(b) He feels so guilty that he thinks using all her meat will ease the pain of having killed her.
(c) He promised his best friend he would bring some elk meat back.
(d) He promised his dying brother he would bring some elk meat back.

15. What is Ricky's little brother's name?
(a) Ryan.
(b) Spike.
(c) Merly.
(d) Cheeto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What condition did Lewis and his friends take in order to not have to pay a fine for hunting the elk they killed?

2. Why was Lewis so confused about the way Harley died?

3. What time does the train pass by Lewis's house?

4. Whose rifle does Lewis use to finish off the young elk he kills?

5. Who drove the truck when Lewis and his friends hunted on the day of the Thanksgiving Classic?

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