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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "The Mississippi Valley Frontier"?
(a) Engels.
(b) Salzman.
(c) Caruso.
(d) Mosey.

2. How many days did it take when L'Amour and his fellow officers traveled on the U.S.S. Boise to get from Europe to the U.S. .
(a) 16 days
(b) 8 days.
(c) 10 days.
(d) 5 days.

3. Who wrote the quotation at the beginning of Chapter 25?
(a) Tennyson.
(b) Byron.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Wordsworth.

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

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

6. On what Indian reservation was Mancos Canyon located?
(a) Hopi.
(b) Hualapai.
(c) Navajo.
(d) Ute.

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

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

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) Emanuel Penrod.
(b) John Mackay.
(c) Pat McLaughlin.
(d) Peter O'Riley.

10. Who wrote the book that L'Amour had in his back pocket when he met Gillespie?
(a) Buckle.
(b) Draper.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Smith.

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

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

13. When did Kumarajiva reach China?
(a) 634 A.D.
(b) 394 A.D.
(c) 401 A.D.
(d) 572 A.D.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book did David Buxton write that L'Amour read?

3. Where did L'Amour settle down to try to become a writer?

4. 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?

5. In California in the 1920s, how long was a boxing bout?

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