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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Eli feel when Tub finally died?
(a) Eli felt happy.
(b) Eli felt angry.
(c) Eli felt relieved.
(d) Eli felt terribly sad.

2. How did Warm perform a demonstration of his invention for Morris?
(a) He poured gold dust in a box of dirt and water and illuminated it with his special formula in Morris's hotel room.
(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 took Morris to a river and demonstrated his formula there.

3. What did the stable hand use to perform the surgery Tub needed?
(a) A scalpel.
(b) A spade.
(c) A spoon.
(d) A needle.

4. What was Warm's wife's name?
(a) Eleanor.
(b) Clara.
(c) Eunice.
(d) Clarice.

5. What did Warm tell Eli his father had done for a living?
(a) He was an inventor.
(b) He was a chef.
(c) He was a military man.
(d) He was a butcher.

6. What did the brothers pass on the way out of San Francisco?
(a) A group of dead bears.
(b) A dead, skinned and partially mutilated horse that had died the previous day.
(c) A group of prostitutes.
(d) A group of dead prospectors.

7. What did Eli tell Charlie just before they left San Francisco for Sacramento to find Warm and Morris?
(a) He was going to kill Warm and Morris alone.
(b) He was going to kill the Commodore next.
(c) He was dying of cancer.
(d) This would be his last job.

8. What was Charlie surprised that Eli knew about how Charlie felt about the Commodore?
(a) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie thought of the Commodore as a father.
(b) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie wanted to kill the Commodore.
(c) Charlie was surprised that Eli knew he was hoping to one day usurp or take the Commodore's place.
(d) Charlie was surprised Eli knew Charlie wanted to become a business partner with the Commodore.

9. What did the prospector near Warm's claim tell Eli and Charlie that Warm and Morris had been carrying?
(a) Many barrels of wine.
(b) A huge amount of gold.
(c) Many pounds of food.
(d) Extra saddles.

10. What color beard did the hotel manager say the man Morris left with have?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

11. How did the Sisters brothers manage to escape from Warm upon their first meeting?
(a) A group of Indians intervened.
(b) Warm lost his balance from his branch and the Sisters brothers fled.
(c) Warm lost his grip on his gun and the Sisters brothers fled.
(d) Morris knocked Warm out from behind.

12. What was the owner of The Black Skull doing when Charlie and Eli went to ask him about Warm?
(a) Eating his dinner.
(b) Drinking heavily.
(c) Beating another man.
(d) Playing a game of chance with a beautiful woman.

13. What upset the stable hand so much when he and Eli tranquilized Tub?
(a) The horse kicked the stable hand.
(b) The horse died when he tried to tranquilize it.
(c) The horse threw up.
(d) The horse collapsed on the men and the stable hand had thought they might be killed.

14. What did Eli conclude and comment on to Charlie about the prospectors they had met on their journey?
(a) The the prospectors did not have much longer to live.
(b) The solitude of working in the wild is not healthy for men.
(c) That the prospectors were all especially tough and hardy.
(d) That the prospectors were all alcoholics.

15. What did Eli try to convince Charlie to do over dinner at the expensive restaurant in San Francisco?
(a) Let Warm and Morris live and leave the service of the Commodore.
(b) Kill Morris and go into business with Warm.
(c) Kill Warm and go into business with Morris.
(d) Kill Warm and Morris and take the formula for themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charlie and Eli discuss openly for the first time together on the way to Sacramento?

2. What did Warm tell Morris about how the Commodore had treated Warm?

3. How did Charlie and Eli often come about their truces?

4. What did Warm do as he and the Sisters brothers moved closer to each other after Eli had once again proposed working together?

5. How long did the hotel manager say Morris had been gone?

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