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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XXXII - XXXV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the driver to lose the road one night?
(a) A tornado.
(b) A rainstorm.
(c) A patch of mud.
(d) A hurricane.

2. How many days have the travelers been riding in the stage coach when they encounter the Goshoot Indians?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Eighteen.

3. What idea does the mining party abandon the digging of their mine for?
(a) Using hired men to dig for them.
(b) Trading the claimed ledges.
(c) Selling the claimed ledges.
(d) Using dynamite.

4. How many people live in Carson City?
(a) Three throusand.
(b) Twelve thousand.
(c) Ten thousand.
(d) Two thousand.

5. What is the result of the first fight between Slade and Jules?
(a) Slade is wounded.
(b) Neither is wounded.
(c) Jules is wonded.
(d) They are both wounded.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take the narrator to pack his bags to accompany his brother on the trip?

2. Where is the author traveling to?

3. How often are the horses switched that are pulling the mail coach on the way to Carson City?

4. What two bodies of water do the streams at the top of the South Pass empty into?

5. How does the desert wanderer react when he is prevented from telling the same story about Hank Monk?

(see the answer key)

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