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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In ancient times, how many ships a day might sail from the Red Sea coast of Egypt to India?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. Who wrote "The Army of the Future"?
(a) De Gaulle.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Fuller.
(d) Hitler.

3. How long was the sailing season from Egypt to India?
(a) 180 days.
(b) 120 days.
(c) 200 days.
(d) 90 days.

4. How many days did it usually take the U.S.S. Boise to travel from Europe to the U.S.?
(a) 4-4 ½ days.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 5-6 days.
(d) 3 days.

5. What desert did a part of five monks travel through in A.D. 399?
(a) Sahara.
(b) Gobi.
(c) Kalahari.
(d) Taklamakan.

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

7. Where did L'Amour settle down to try to become a writer?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Texas.
(d) Ohio.

8. When did Kumarajiva reach China?
(a) 394 A.D.
(b) 634 A.D.
(c) 572 A.D.
(d) 401 A.D.

9. How many Nobel Prize winners did L'Amour believe wrote in "Story."
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

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

11. Where was the small journal published that published some of L'Amour's poetry in Chapter 15?
(a) Emory University.
(b) Simpson College.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Berkeley.

12. When was Seri Turi Buana installed as king?
(a) 1273.
(b) 1149.
(c) 1201.
(d) 1179.

13. How old was Fa-hien when he died?
(a) 98.
(b) 73.
(c) 88.
(d) 104.

14. While L'Amour was studying the Far East, how many books did he read in a year on the American West?
(a) 30.
(b) 55.
(c) 20.
(d) 45.

15. On one (and possibly) three sides of L'Amour's family, how many generations have been in America?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose translation of the Shah-nama did L'Amour prefer?

2. Who was the Navajo artist whose painting appeared on L'Amour's book, "The Haunted Mesa"?

3. What writer and naturalist was on the spot when the New Madrid earthquake happened?

4. Who wrote a law book that was the key to much western law?

5. How many days did it take when L'Amour and his fellow officers traveled on the U.S.S. Boise to get from Europe to the U.S. .

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