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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Davies try to assure Jeff Farnley?

2. Why does Art worried about Gil at the poker game?

3. Who does Smith antagonize into joining them in their search for the rustlers/murderers?

4. What does Gil soon get into?

5. Who changes the attitude of the men waiting from a quarter of a mile away?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Art and Gil feel about the whole situation?

2. What causes the men to remount and renew their intention to hunt down the men responsible for the rustling and Kinkaid's murder?

3. What do Kinkaid and Farnley discover just before roundup?

4. What does Canby do in an effort to support Judge Tyler's attempts to diffuse the lynch mob?

5. What does Smith do while they are waiting that backfires on him?

6. What do the bulk of the men assembling to ride with Farnley believe?

7. What does Canby tell Art and Gil regarding events they have missed while working through the winter?

8. What does Davies believe that Farnley should do, and how many men agree with him?

9. Why does Art hope that Gil will take a hint and quit playing poker when Art announces he has had enough?

10. Why is Gil so angry and disappointed when he learns that Rose has already left Bridger's Wells?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do Tetley Sr. and his son not get along? Why does Tetley Sr. insist that Gerald go with him and the group? What is Tetley Sr. hoping to accomplish by forcing his son to participate? What does Gerald tell Art on the way to Pike's Hole? What would he rather do?

Essay Topic 2

Who arrives that sways the group to a more negative outlook? What is his background? Why does he automatically become the unofficial leader of the group? What information does he bring with him? How does that change the intentions of the group? What does Mapes do before the group leaves? Why does the judge disagree with this?

Essay Topic 3

How does Art feel about the conversation he has with Gerald? What do he and Gerald have in common? Might his feelings about the conversation stem from his own doubts? How does he handle Gerald's diatribe? What stand does he take with Gerald to quiet him. What makes Art most sore about the whole conversation? What is Gerald's definition of Hell?

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