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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many books and plays did L'Amour read in 1930?
(a) 87.
(b) 94.
(c) 142.
(d) 115.

3. How tall was L'Amour as an adult?
(a) 7 feet 1 inch.
(b) 6 feet 4 inches.
(c) 6 feet 2 inches.
(d) 5 feet. 11 inches.

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

5. What Indian territory surrounded Stein's Pass?
(a) Apache.
(b) Commanche.
(c) Cherokee.
(d) Sioux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the first books L'Amour remembered reading?

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

3. How old was L'Amour when he met Pete?

4. Who did L'Amour work out with a few times at the YMCA gym?

5. Where was L'Amour working in Klamath Falls, Oregon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two reasons influenced L'Amour to drop out of school?

2. Describe the steelworker who started following the rails with L'Amour.

3. Before L'Amour ended up in Singapore, what were some jobs he had held?

4. What were bookstores like in Chapter 10?

5. Who was Pete Petrolle?

6. What did L'Amour have to say about plots in stories?

7. Why didn't the man L'Amour worked for in Chapter 7 work his own mines?

8. What was old man Peterson's story?

9. Why didn't L'Amour look for a job right away when he got to Los Angeles?

10. Why did seaman prefer to ship from the west coast?

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