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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23 and 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many boys in L'Amour's Golden Gloves boxing team became novice champions in their divisions?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. What was the name of the magazine that published the first modern stories of science fiction?
(a) Weird Tales.
(b) Amazing Stories.
(c) Science: fact and fiction.
(d) Science and Invention.

3. In the Adobe Walls fight, how many buffalo hunters fought off Comanche and Kiowa warriors?
(a) 32.
(b) 52.
(c) 42.
(d) 28.

4. What did L'Amour hit in Chapter 8?
(a) Tree.
(b) Cow.
(c) Building.
(d) Rock.

5. Who operated the Brown Derby in Hollywood?
(a) Cobb.
(b) Manning.
(c) Vining.
(d) Nestor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was L'Amour on a small ship off the Florida coast when a hurricane ripped Miami?

2. In Chapter 11, how much did Modern Library editions cost?

3. Where did L'Amour begin writing "Education of a Wandering Man"?

4. In Chapter 4, where was the machinist from who was headed to a job in El Paso?

5. How many Nobel Prize winners did L'Amour believe wrote in "Story."

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