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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book by Byron might have been found on L'Amour's bookshelves?
(a) The Love Poems.
(b) Child of Passion.
(c) Childe Harold.
(d) A Romantic's Passion.

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

3. What was the name of the only other ship that made the crossing during the storm L'Amour encountered on the Boise?
(a) Reno.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Drum.
(d) Alden.

4. Where was the small journal published that published some of L'Amour's poetry in Chapter 15?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Emory University.
(d) Simpson College.

5. What book did L'Amour read by Malcom Rogers?
(a) Conquest of New Mexico and California.
(b) Ancient Hunters of the Far West.
(c) Humboldt to the Pacific.
(d) Journey to the Rocky Mountains.

6. What was the name of the small railroad that L'Amour would take to the wilderness area of Sycamore Canyon in Arizona?
(a) Pacific Northern.
(b) Verde-Mix.
(c) Aqua-Neuve.
(d) Burlington.

7. Where did L'Amour's first contact in Shanghai come from?
(a) The Station.
(b) The Riot.
(c) Olympic.
(d) Greek.

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

9. What was L'Amour's first motion picture?
(a) Rebel Without a Cause.
(b) East of Sumatra.
(c) Searchers.
(d) Rear Window.

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

11. What is the first positive date for China's knowledge of Bali?
(a) 345.
(b) 685.
(c) 493.
(d) 977.

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

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

14. Who was the Navajo artist whose painting appeared on L'Amour's book, "The Haunted Mesa"?
(a) Cliff Brycelea.
(b) Urshel Taylor.
(c) Dana Tiger.
(d) Jerome Bushyhead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did L'Amour sell his first short story for cash?

2. Who was the black king of Haiti?

3. Who wrote "Ancient Geography of India"?

4. Who wrote the book that L'Amour had in his back pocket when he met Gillespie?

5. When did Kumarajiva reach China?

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