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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. How did the hotel manager respond to Charlie's request to see what Morris had left behind?
2. What was the phrase that Morris used to describe the effects of Warm's formula?
3. What was it that gave away Warm and Morris's position to the Sisters Brothers at first?
4. What was Charlie surprised that Eli knew about how Charlie felt about the Commodore?
5. What did the Sisters brothers see when they approached Warm and Morris's camp the second time?
Short Essay Questions
1. After reading Morris's journal, why do both Charlie and Eli have misgivings about going through with killing Warm for the Commodore?
2. What did the stable hand in San Francisco tell Eli had to be done to Tub?
3. Why was the man with the eye patch who ran the restaurant Warm used to frequent so upset that Warm had left him out of his plans?
4. What happened when Charlie and Eli were staking out Warm and Morris's camp at Warm's claim?
5. What did Charlie and Eli give to Tub before splashing the alcohol in his eye socket?
6. What did Eli tell Charlie about their work together at their fancy dinner at The Golden Pearl in San Francisco?
7. Charlie and Eli met a prospector right before reaching Warm's claim. What is wrong with the prospector's coffee?
8. What did the prospector tell Eli and Charlie about the camp of men they would pass on the way to Warm's claim?
9. What possible option did Charlie and Eli discuss that did not involve killing Warm and Morris?
10. What did Eli see as the brothers were leaving San Francisco, and how did he feel about the city as they left?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do the various unnamed prospectors the Sisters Brothers meet on their journey reveal about life on the U.S. West Coast at the time of the California Gold Rush? Write an essay analyzing how deWitt uses the prospectors to help establish the setting of the story.
Essay Topic 2
What do the dead beavers in the River of Light symbolize? Why does Eli go to the trouble of moving them?
Essay Topic 3
What did Eli learn about both himself and his brother Charlie as a result of the consequences of the old "witch" woman's stringing what the brothers think are a cursed string of beads across the threshold of the cabin they all share for a night (34)? Write an essay exploring why the brothers both seem to take the old woman seriously and what her beads across the threshold revealed about their characters.
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