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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city was Oak Creek Canyon near?
(a) Clarkdale.
(b) Sedona.
(c) Prescott.
(d) Cornville.

2. How many men did Alexander have in his army?
(a) 8,900.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 4,700.
(d) 30,000.

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

4. What desert did a part of five monks travel through in A.D. 399?
(a) Kalahari.
(b) Gobi.
(c) Taklamakan.
(d) Sahara.

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

6. In what desert did L'Amour believe that the remains of an ancient civilization might be discovered?
(a) Taklamakan.
(b) Nubian.
(c) Kalahari.
(d) Sechura.

7. In what region did many of the black empires exist?
(a) Niger.
(b) Arabia.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Egypt.

8. When did I-Tsing make a pilgrimage to India and the islands to study Buddhism?
(a) 234 A.D.
(b) 345-375 A.D.
(c) 539 A.D.
(d) 672-692 A.D.

9. When did L'Amour sell his first short story for cash?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1935.

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

11. When did the Rev. Andrew Burnaby write "Through the Middle Settlements of North America"?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1759-1760.
(d) 1801-1803.

12. 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?
(a) Idaho.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Montana.

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

14. When were the Wolfville stories written?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1743.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years did it take for Flaubert to complete "Madame Bovary"?

2. In the Adobe Walls fight, how many buffalo hunters fought off Comanche and Kiowa warriors?

3. Was the the name of L'Amour's first novel?

4. How many days did it usually take the U.S.S. Boise to travel from Europe to the U.S.?

5. Where did L'Amour believe that a half-caste brother and sister he met in Shanghai died?

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