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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many white men died in the stagecoach attack that Peterson described?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

2. What author did L'Amour think he might emulate at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(b) Earnest Hemingway.
(c) James Fennimore Cooper.
(d) Joseph Conrad.

3. Who was the only author L'Amour knew that wrote about hunger from experience?
(a) Knut Hamsun.
(b) Anatole France.
(c) Henri Bergson.
(d) Sigrid Undset.

4. How old was Pete Boering when L'Amour met him?
(a) 32.
(b) 26.
(c) 28.
(d) 30.

5. Who taught L'Amour how to use a six-shooter?
(a) Bill Tilghman.
(b) Jim Newman.
(c) John Hicks.
(d) Charles Allison.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the year that L'Amour kept track of the books he read, how many did he read while waiting for people?

2. Who was L'Amour's first employer?

3. Where did the shipwreck take place that was written about in Shakespeare's "Tempest"?

4. How old was an old man named Peterson who told L'Amour a story?

5. After L'Amour ate his only can of food, how far was it to the town where he was headed?

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