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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 217 - 276).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Eli hear Charlie saying in the bathtub that upset him?
(a) Charlie said he would have separated from Eli long ago if Eli was not his brother.
(b) Charlie said he hated Eli.
(c) Charlie said Eli was fat.
(d) Charlie said Eli was stupid.

2. How did Warm perform a demonstration of his invention for Morris?
(a) He took Morris to a river and demonstrated his formula there.
(b) He took Morris to a swimming pool and illuminated some gold dust in it there.
(c) He put gold in Morris's hotel washbasin and shined a light on it.
(d) He poured gold dust in a box of dirt and water and illuminated it with his special formula in Morris's hotel room.

3. What did Charlie tell the boy with the wagons they had done to his father?
(a) Maimed him.
(b) Killed him.
(c) Taken him to the hospital.
(d) Stolen his money.

4. What did the Sisters brothers tell Warm about how they learned about his formula?
(a) They told him the townspeople had told them.
(b) They told him the prospectors down the river had told them.
(c) They told him they learned the facts from Morris and from Morris's journal.
(d) They told him they had read about his formula in the newspaper.

5. What did Charlie steal from the doctor who patched up Eli?
(a) A bunch of syringes.
(b) A numbing medication.
(c) A gun.
(d) Morphine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charlie think the first time Eli persuaded him to try his toothbrush?

2. Who was the Commodore's scout who has gone ahead of Charlie and Eli to San Francisco on the Hermann Warm job?

3. What did the Sisters brothers do for a living?

4. Who was the boy with the grouping of wagons waiting for?

5. What did Eli feed Tub on the ferry?

(see the answer key)

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