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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, when was L'Amour in Singapore?
(a) May 14.
(b) March 18.
(c) June 3.
(d) April 12.

2. How long after Peterson was taken by the Apaches did he partake in a war party?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 7 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 6 years.

3. Who was the only author L'Amour knew that wrote about hunger from experience?
(a) Knut Hamsun.
(b) Anatole France.
(c) Sigrid Undset.
(d) Henri Bergson.

4. Where did Russian Joe Smith get picked up?
(a) Hanoi.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Peking.
(d) Bangkok.

5. How long did L'Amour spend in Los Angeles?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 3 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the shipwreck take place that was written about in Shakespeare's "Tempest"?

2. What was the usual occupation of the last man who tried to stay at the mine?

3. When was "Erewhon" written?

4. Where had L'Amour planned to go after he got his parents settled? .

5. How long did a boy tell L'Amour that Arabs had been in the East Indies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was the man in Chapter 4 who gave L'Amour a ride to Tucson?

2. How did L'Amour save himself a lot of hardship?

3. Who was Pete Petrolle?

4. How did Shorty Harris lose a rich claim?

5. What were bookstores like in Chapter 10?

6. What two reasons influenced L'Amour to drop out of school?

7. Why didn't the man L'Amour worked for in Chapter 7 work his own mines?

8. What would L'Amour do after being paid for skinning cattle?

9. What types of hunger had L'Amour known in his life?

10. Why did seaman prefer to ship from the west coast?

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