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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. Where did Pete's manager own and operate a cafe?
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Millersburg.
(c) Chariton.
(d) Newton.

2. What author did L'Amour think he might emulate at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) James Fennimore Cooper.
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(c) Earnest Hemingway.
(d) Joseph Conrad.

3. About how fast was L'Amour able to walk after he damaged the Model T?
(a) 1 mph.
(b) 3 mph.
(c) 1/2 mph.
(d) 2 mph.

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

5. How long did a boy tell L'Amour that Arabs had been in the East Indies?
(a) 1,000 years.
(b) 500 years.
(c) 400 years.
(d) 750 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time L'Amour wrote the book, at how many universities and colleges had he lectured?

2. How many leghorn chickens were at the mine where L'Amour worked in Chapter 6?

3. What was the name of the boxing magazine published in St. Paul?

4. Where did L'Amour read "Don Juan"?

5. How long did L'Amour spend in Los Angeles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of work did L'Amour do in a veneer plant?

2. How did L'Amour keep from being disappointed by the constant flow of rejection slips he received?

3. Why did L'Amour work so many jobs?

4. What did L'Amour do when he finally got to Barstow after working on a mine claim?

5. What was old man Peterson's story?

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

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

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

9. How did L'Amour get away from the steelworker who expected L'Amour to take care of him?

10. What did L'Amour have to say about plots in stories?

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