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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the black king of Haiti?
(a) Leon Laleau.
(b) Emile Nau.
(c) Georges Anglade.
(d) Henri Christophe. .

2. Where did L'Amour read "Taras Bulba"?
(a) Paris.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Madrid.
(d) Berlin.

3. Who wrote "The Mississippi Valley Frontier"?
(a) Salzman.
(b) Caruso.
(c) Engels.
(d) Mosey.

4. Who wrote what L'Amour considered to be the best history of Japan?
(a) Charles Terry.
(b) David Hampton.
(c) George Sansom.
(d) Robert Wyatt.

5. What languages did the man speak in addition to his native tongue who told L'Amour about the "Sejarah Melayu"?
(a) German and Russian.
(b) English and Portuguese.
(c) English, French, and German.
(d) Spanish, English, and Russian.

6. What writer did L'Amour say led off fiction about the American frontier?
(a) Mayne Reid.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) James W. Steele.
(d) Captain Charles King.

7. How many short stories had L'Amour written when his first novel was published?
(a) More than 100.
(b) 75.
(c) 45.
(d) About 50.

8. Where did L'Amour believe that a half-caste brother and sister he met in Shanghai died?
(a) Guangzhou.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Nanking.

9. Who was one of the regular writers in "The Saturday Evening Post"?
(a) William Saroyan.
(b) Whit Burnett.
(c) H. L. Mencken.
(d) Clarence Budgington Kelland.

10. What book did L'Amour mention that was a somewhat pornographic Chinese novel?
(a) The Water Margin.
(b) Chin P'ing Mei.
(c) Saving a Prostitute.
(d) Dream of the Red Chamber.

11. Who wrote the book that L'Amour had in his back pocket when he met Gillespie?
(a) Draper.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Buckle.
(d) Smith.

12. Who wrote "The Army of the Future"?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Fuller.
(d) De Gaulle.

13. Who wrote the quotation at the beginning of Chapter 25?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Byron.

14. How large is the desert of Taklamakan?
(a) Size of Alaska.
(b) Size of California.
(c) Size of Montana and Wyoming combined.
(d) Size of Oklahoma and Texas combined.

15. How old was Dixon when he came west?
(a) 14.
(b) 23.
(c) 16.
(d) 31.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose translation of the Shah-nama did L'Amour prefer?

2. What Chinese dynasty did L'Amour believe was one of the most glorious? .

3. On one (and possibly) three sides of L'Amour's family, how many generations have been in America?

4. Where did L'Amour attend Officers' Candidate School?

5. Who wrote "Ancient Geography of India"?

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