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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did L'Amour review that began his study of Africa?
(a) The Africa Background Outlined.
(b) Out of Africa.
(c) How I Found Livingstone.
(d) Through the Dark Continent.

2. Whose translation of the Shah-nama did L'Amour prefer?
(a) William Wright.
(b) Peter Davidson.
(c) Reuben Levy.
(d) Andrew Barett.

3. Where did L'Amour attend Officers' Candidate School?
(a) Fort Worth.
(b) Camp Hood.
(c) Camp Robinson.
(d) Fort Bliss.

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

5. What people group established themselves at Carthage and became a dominant power until destroyed by Rome.
(a) Berbers.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Phoenicians.

6. Who was the main character of L'Amour's novel "The Walking Drum"?
(a) Shalako.
(b) Kerbouchard.
(c) Chantry.
(d) William Tell Sackett.

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

8. Was the the name of L'Amour's first novel?
(a) Kid Rodelo.
(b) Borden Chantry.
(c) Catlow.
(d) Westward the Tide.

9. Who operated the Brown Derby in Hollywood?
(a) Cobb.
(b) Nestor.
(c) Vining.
(d) Manning.

10. What was the name of the author who went to high school in L'Amour's hometown?
(a) E. E. Kellett.
(b) W. H. Auden.
(c) Louis MacNeice.
(d) Maxwell Anderson.

11. What book did David Buxton write that L'Amour read?
(a) The Mountains of Rasseles.
(b) A Short History of South Africa.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Travels in Ethiopia.

12. When did L'Amour believe that the C.C. Brown translation of the "Sejarah Melayu" was written?
(a) 1699.
(b) 1702.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1712.

13. In ancient times, how many ships a day might sail from the Red Sea coast of Egypt to India?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

14. How many boys in L'Amour's Golden Gloves boxing team became novice champions in their divisions?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

15. When was Seri Turi Buana installed as king?
(a) 1273.
(b) 1149.
(c) 1179.
(d) 1201.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did L'Amour read "Burning Daylight"?

2. What was the name of the small railroad that L'Amour would take to the wilderness area of Sycamore Canyon in Arizona?

3. Who wrote "The Army of the Future"?

4. On the U.S.S. Boise returning from France, where was the boy from who fascinated L'Amour with tales of his experiences in Burma and India?

5. At what distance did Billy Dixon shoot an Indian off his horse?

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