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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) 57.
(b) About 200.
(c) More than 100.
(d) 89.

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

3. Where did L'Amour begin writing "Education of a Wandering Man"?
(a) Singapore.
(b) London.
(c) Hong Kong.
(d) Paris.

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

5. Who was one of the female actresses in L'Amour's first motion picture?
(a) Marilyn Maxwell.
(b) Kim Novak.
(c) Jane Russell.
(d) Hedy Lamarr.

6. Where did L'Amour read "Burning Daylight"?
(a) While working at a factory.
(b) On a bus traveling through Texas.
(c) On a boat in Asia.
(d) While working at an old mine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. How many bronze stars was L'Amour awarded?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. On one (and possibly) three sides of L'Amour's family, how many generations have been in America?

2. What city was Oak Creek Canyon near?

3. How many Nobel Prize winners did L'Amour believe wrote in "Story."

4. What was L'Amour's first motion picture?

5. What Chinese dynasty did L'Amour believe was one of the most glorious? .

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