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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Professor Walter Campbell's pen name?
(a) David Andrews.
(b) Robert Peters.
(c) Stanley Vestal.
(d) Michael Williams.

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

3. Who made up the core of Alexander's army?
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Macedonians.
(c) Romans.
(d) Greeks.

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

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

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

7. While L'Amour was studying the Far East, how many books did he read in a year on the American West?
(a) 55.
(b) 45.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

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) 1475.
(c) 1549.
(d) 1321.

9. Who was one of the millionaires of the Comstock Lode that L'Amour said walked into Virginia City broken and left with $200 million?
(a) John Mackay.
(b) Peter O'Riley.
(c) Emanuel Penrod.
(d) Pat McLaughlin.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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) Montana.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Missouri.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many boys in L'Amour's Golden Gloves boxing team became novice champions in their divisions?

3. Who wrote a law book that was the key to much western law?

4. Who wrote the quotation at the beginning of Chapter 25?

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

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