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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. How much equipment is loaded into the wagon that the narrator and his friends take to the mountains for mining?
(a) Nineteen hundred pounds.
(b) Two thousand pounds.
(c) Twenty-two hundred pounds.
(d) Eighteen hundred pounds.

2. How long is the Great American Desert?
(a) Forty miles.
(b) Sixty miles.
(c) Thirty miles.
(d) Fifty Miles.

3. How long does it take the narrator to pack his bags to accompany his brother on the trip?
(a) Less than an hour.
(b) More than two hours.
(c) More than an hour.
(d) Less than thirty minutes.

4. How many people has Slade killed, as mentioned in the book?
(a) Twenty-nine.
(b) Twenty-six.
(c) Twenty-eight.
(d) Twenty-seven.

5. What do the assayers do?
(a) Negotiate the salaries of the workers in the mines.
(b) Evaluate the content of the rocks being mined.
(c) Evaluate the working conditions of the mines.
(d) Negotiate the type of payment for the rocks being mined.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hawaii called in the book?

2. When does the great Indian Mail Robbery take place?

3. How long does the narrator's crew rest in Carson City before heading back to Esmeralda?

4. Where are the vigilantes from that hang Slade?

5. How many novels had Mark Twain written before Roughing It?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the situation of Mr. Street and how does it provide an example of Utah's way of governing for the narrator?

2. What is the experience the narrator has in buying a horse in Carson City?

3. How does the narrator help his brother in writing to the government for money?

4. How does the narrator's party claim their mining areas along the mountains in Unionville, and what happens as they try to work in them?

5. What leads the narrator and his party to Esmeralda?

6. What is the Great American Desert like, and what is interesting about Carson Lake?

7. What is Roughing It about, according to the author?

8. What is the economy of Salt Lake City like, and how long do the travelers stay there?

9. What warning is the narrator and his party given as they approach the Honey Lake Smith's Inn, and what is their response?

10. How does the narrator discuss the Mormon religion?

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