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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Williams do in the duel that was shameful?
(a) He ran away.
(b) He hid behind his second.
(c) He cried.
(d) He shot into the crowd, wounding a woman.

2. What did Eli see at the duel that upset him?
(a) A snake.
(b) Too many women.
(c) A father bringing his small son to watch the violence.
(d) A larger crowd of people than he expected.

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

4. What kind of creature bit Eli, sending him into an illness of fever?
(a) A raccoon.
(b) A spider.
(c) A snake.
(d) A scorpion.

5. What happened when the boy began to ride with the Sisters brothers in Part II?
(a) He got shot at by prospectors.
(b) He fell behind immediately.
(c) His horse died.
(d) He fell off his horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the prospector jabbing Eli with his gun ask if Eli and Charlie were hunting?

2. How did the inn keeper react when Eli told her who he and Charlie were?

3. How much money did the Sisters brothers steal from Mayfield in gold?

4. How did the pale bookkeeper protect Eli in Mayfield's hotel?

5. What was the name of the lawyer in the duel that Charlie and Eli watched?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Eli try to break the tension with Charlie early on in their journey to California?

2. Why did Eli tell Charlie he had dreams about becoming a shop keeper someday?

3. What did Charlie and Eli do to Mayfield after they killed the trappers?

4. What was the trouble with the horses Eli references in the first chapter?

5. How did Eli feel looking at the dead prospector who had been poking him in his injured leg?

6. How did Eli treat the boy once he had surprisingly caught up with him and Charlie?

7. What did Eli realize about how Charlie felt about killing the men whose tools he took to widen the window?

8. What caused the injury to Eli's foot that he suffered early in the brothers' journey to California?

9. Why did Charlie ask Eli to have a chat with the boy before they set off on their journey again?

10. Why did Eli eventually have to cross the threshold of the old cabin even though he was afraid of the old woman's curse?

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