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Roughing It Test | Final Test - Medium

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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 is the silver ore melted before it is shipped to California?
(a) In bricks.
(b) In liquid form.
(c) In bars.
(d) In coins.

2. While the narrator is in Virginia, how is a person's reputation determined?
(a) Their social position.
(b) Their relatives.
(c) Their money.
(d) Their job.

3. What does the narrator find on the islands of Mono Lake?
(a) One abandoned mine on each island.
(b) Two abandoned mines on each island.
(c) One pine tree on each island.
(d) Two pine trees on each island.

4. What does the narrator do after his lectures become a success?
(a) He gives an interview to the newspaper.
(b) He begins writing his lectures out to be published in the newspaper.
(c) He hires a co-writer.
(d) He hires an agent.

5. According to the information in Chapter LXIII, how many people live in Honolulu?
(a) Twenty thousand.
(b) Thirty thousand.
(c) Twelve thousand.
(d) Twenty-two thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator get back to Esmeralda after taking care of Capt. John Nye?

2. What bites the narrator during his stay in Honolulu?

3. What happens to the cities that once flourished during the Gold Rush?

4. When does the narrator's party leave for Mono Lake?

5. How is Jack Williams killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the new career choice the narrator makes towards the end of the book, and how does it begin?

2. How does the narrator describe Mono Lake?

3. Why is the narrator's work never published in The Weekly Occidental?

4. What is pocket mining and the result of the narrator's attempt at it?

5. Who is Higbie, and why is he valuable for the narrator's search of Mr. Whiteman?

6. What are the two different reasons that both the narrator and Higbie abandon their blind lead claim, and what is the result?

7. What happens when the narrator encounters a band of highway bandits after a lecture?

8. How does Nevada change during the flush times, and what are nabobs?

9. How does the narrator describe the trip from Hawaii to San Francisco and what is his situation once he arrives there?

10. What is on the islands in the center of Mono Lake?

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