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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 did Charlie tell Eli that upset him about the inn keeper he liked?
2. What kind of creature bit Eli, sending him into an illness of fever?
3. Who won the duel?
4. What was the name of the bar Charlie and Eli frequented in their home city?
5. What did the old woman at the shack leave behind when she disappeared during the night?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Eli tell Charlie he had dreams about becoming a shop keeper someday?
2. How did Eli come upon a horse that was free for the taking?
3. Why were the Sisters brothers unsettled by the old woman in the cabin early on in their journey?
4. How did Eli try to break the tension with Charlie early on in their journey to California?
5. What was the problem with the weeping man Charlie and Eli meet very soon after they set off for California?
6. What did the boy with the wagons tell the Sisters Brothers about how he came to be alone?
7. Why did Eli and Charlie kill the reddish-colored she-bear as they continued on their journey?
8. How did Eli feel looking at the dead prospector who had been poking him in his injured leg?
9. Why did Eli ask the waiter in the restaurant in Jacksonville to cut down his meal portion and bring him more vegetables?
10. Who did Eli meet at Mayfield's hotel who helped him and warned him of the danger about to befall he and Charlie?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring why Eli seems to act so rashly in firing his gun in the room the pale bookkeeper takes him to in order to protect him from the trappers at Mayfield's hotel (132). Use specific references from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Eli describes his working with Charlie, Eli and Morris collecting gold from the River of Light as the happiest he would ever be as long as he lives. Afterwards, he comes to believe that men are "not meant to have access to this kind of satisfaction" (294). What do you think Eli means by this statement and what happens after this point in the novel that makes him feel that way?
Essay Topic 3
What surprises Eli about the Commodore in his last moments before Eli kills him? What Eli say he had wanted to happen when he killed the Commodore, and why do you think it was important to him?
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