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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. At the end of Chapter 22, what country did L'Amour mention that was invaded many times, but never invaded anyone?
(a) India.
(b) Greece.
(c) China.
(d) Persia.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What book did L'Amour mention that was a somewhat pornographic Chinese novel?
(a) Dream of the Red Chamber.
(b) The Water Margin.
(c) Saving a Prostitute.
(d) Chin P'ing Mei.

10. When was it said that paper was invented?
(a) 78.
(b) 209
(c) 54.
(d) 106.

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

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

13. Whose translation of the Shah-nama did L'Amour prefer?
(a) Reuben Levy.
(b) William Wright.
(c) Peter Davidson.
(d) Andrew Barett.

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

15. How long was the sailing season from Egypt to India?
(a) 90 days.
(b) 200 days.
(c) 180 days.
(d) 120 days.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Seri Turi Buana installed as king?

3. How old did Chris Madsen live to be?

4. Who wrote "The Mississippi Valley Frontier"?

5. How many texts did Kumarajiva translate from Sanskrit into Chinese?

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