Lonesome Dove Quizzes

Lonesome Dove Quiz for Chapters 1-15

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1 The epigraph concerns the dichotomy between ___.

mental versus physical

wilderness and civilization

good and evil

Call and Augustus
2 What animals does Augustus see eating a rattlesnake?

water moccasins

cattle

horses

pigs
3 What does Augustus like to do while Call works?

Read novels

Have intelligent conversations with himself

Cook for the workers

Eat bacon
4 What is Call's mare named?

Hell Bitch

Buffalo Heifer

Candy

Sugar
5 Why does Pea Eye prefer working with Call?

Call does not try to engage him in conversation

Call has intelligent conversations

He hates working

He actually prefers working with Augustus
6 Why does Call habitually patrol the river?

To talk to Augustus

To hone his instincts and take quiet time alone

Because he hates civilization

Because of the immense danger and risk of attack
7 Where does Lorena dream of going?

New York

Ogallala

San Francisco

St. Louis
8 Who offers Lorena extra money in exchange for hearing her origin story?

Call

Augustus

Bolivar

Newt
9 What does Augustus read in the morning?

His sign

The land

The Bible

Novels
10 Who returns with Deets?

Bolivar

Dish Boggett

Newt

Jake Spoon
11 How does Call test Dish?

By asking him to go on the cattle drive

By instructing him to dig the well with Newt and Pea Eye

By setting up a target to see if he hits the bullseye

None of the above
12 Why doesn't Call fully believe Jake?

Jake murdered a man in cold blood

Jake is too tired to be coherent

Jake always lies

Jake sees things through the lens of his own favor
13 What does Jake say that intrigues Call?

That Maggie loved Call

That there is beautiful open country in Montana

That Pedro Flores died

That the Suggs brothers are killers and horse thieves
14 Why does Dish tell Chick that Lorena is his sister?

Dish wants to provoke the man into a fight.

Dish loves Lorena and does not want the other man to pay for her services.

Dish and Lorena are dating.

Lorena is indeed Dish's sister.
15 Who does Dish see with Lorena?

Newt

Call

Augustus

Jake
16 What shocks Augusuts about Wilbarger?

That Chick asks about Lorena.

That Wilbarger intends to drive cattle.

That Wilbarger studied at Yale because Augustus is used to being the most educated person around.

That Wilbarger found the sign amusing since Augustus meant it to have a serious meaning.
17 What causes Newt to feel grown?

He rides Hell Bitch

Call gives him a pocket watch

He digs a well

Call gives him his first gun
18 Who does the group find at Pedro Flores's camp?

Two Irishmen

Blue Duck

Bandits

Pedro himself
19 What is the novel's narrative perspective?

Third person omniscient

FIrst person plural

Second person

Third person limited
20 Which of the following does McMurtry not use?

Colloquialism

Onomatopoeia

Simile

Euphemism
21 What does the name of the town symbolize in Call and Augustus's lives?

Feeling lonely but at peace with the changing world

Poetic significance

Feeling lonely and obsolete in times of peace

None of the above
22 Which of the following is an important place and a concept in the novel?

The frontier

The Garden of Eden

Hell

The Dry Bean
23 Where is Call from?

Texas

Ireland

Arkansas

Scotland
24 Who took his role as a Ranger the most seriously?

Augustus

Pea Eye

Jake

Call
25 What was McMurtry seeking to dispel with this novel?

That Texas is a superior place to live

Romantic myths about the American "Wild West"

Multifaceted human nature

The myth of meritocracy

Lonesome Dove

Gus spends most of his days drinking in the saloon.

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The Latin phrase that appears on the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign in "Lonesome Dove" is a garbled corruption, and there's no direct translation. Novelist Larry McMurtry probably...

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Dish was one of the original Rangers, and he is known to be steady and reliable.

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