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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many texts did Kumarajiva translate from Sanskrit into Chinese?
(a) About 200.
(b) 89.
(c) 57.
(d) More than 100.

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

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

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

5. On one (and possibly) three sides of L'Amour's family, how many generations have been in America?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

6. In what year was L'Amour on a small ship off the Florida coast when a hurricane ripped Miami?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1928.

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

8. What was the latest date on a collect of eight or ten books of ancient maps that L'Amour viewed at a chateau on the outskirts of Paris?
(a) 1618.
(b) 1549.
(c) 1321.
(d) 1475.

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

10. At what distance did Billy Dixon shoot an Indian off his horse?
(a) 3/4 of a mile.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 1/2 a mile.
(d) ⅞ of a mile.

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

12. In the Adobe Walls fight, how many buffalo hunters fought off Comanche and Kiowa warriors?
(a) 28.
(b) 42.
(c) 52.
(d) 32.

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

14. How many years did it take for Flaubert to complete "Madame Bovary"?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Navajo artist whose painting appeared on L'Amour's book, "The Haunted Mesa"?

2. What languages did the man speak in addition to his native tongue who told L'Amour about the "Sejarah Melayu"?

3. What book did L'Amour read by Malcom Rogers?

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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