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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Muhammed Dulfakir's shop located?
(a) Baker St.
(b) Wyatt St.
(c) High St.
(d) Main St.

2. Where had L'Amour planned to go after he got his parents settled? .
(a) New Orleans
(b) Miami.
(c) New York.
(d) San Diego.

3. What author was L'Amour reading when a pedantic professor gave him a ride?
(a) Engels.
(b) Nietzche.
(c) Comte.
(d) Schopenhauer.

4. What did L'Amour believe was the best book to come out of World War I?
(a) All Quiet on the Western Front.
(b) The Long Weekend.
(c) The Case of Sergeant Grischa.
(d) Undertones of War.

5. Where did L'Amour have his first and worst bout with seasickness?
(a) Cape Hatteras.
(b) Bermuda.
(c) West Indies.
(d) Tahiti.

6. How much did "Little Blue Books" cost?
(a) 5 or 10 cents.
(b) 25 cents.
(c) 50 cents.
(d) 10 or 15 cents.

7. Where was Pete Petrolle from?
(a) Poughkeepsie.
(b) Syracuse.
(c) Schenectady.
(d) Albany.

8. How long did L'Amour spend in Los Angeles?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 1 week.

9. In Chapter 1, when was L'Amour in Singapore?
(a) June 3.
(b) April 12.
(c) March 18.
(d) May 14.

10. How many books did L'Amour have in his personal library?
(a) 17,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 12,000.

11. How many books were in the reading room of the Seaman's Institute?
(a) 150.
(b) 300-400.
(c) 200-250.
(d) 500.

12. Where did Russian Joe Smith get picked up?
(a) Bangkok.
(b) Peking.
(c) Hanoi.
(d) Shanghai.

13. When did Goethe finish the second part of "Faust"?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1826.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1821.

14. When was L'Amour's great-grandfather killed and scalped?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1796.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1799.

15. Where did L'Amour work in a veneer plant?
(a) Washington.
(b) Oregon.
(c) California.
(d) Utah.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many books and plays did L'Amour read in 1930?

2. At the time of the writing of the book, how long were L'Amour and the Irishman who loaned him money friends?

3. What did L'Amour eat out of a can after he damaged the Model T?

4. In what mountains was the claim where L'Amour worked in Chapter 7?

5. What was the name of the magazine that published the first modern stories of science fiction?

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