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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. On one (and possibly) three sides of L'Amour's family, how many generations have been in America?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

2. When did L'Amour sell his first short story for cash?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1929.

3. While L'Amour was studying the Far East, how many books did he read in a year on the American West?
(a) 20.
(b) 45.
(c) 55.
(d) 30.

4. How many boys in L'Amour's Golden Gloves boxing team became novice champions in their divisions?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. When did the Rev. Andrew Burnaby write "Through the Middle Settlements of North America"?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1759-1760.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1801-1803.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did L'Amour's first contact in Shanghai come from?

2. Where did L'Amour begin writing "Education of a Wandering Man"?

3. What book by Byron might have been found on L'Amour's bookshelves?

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

5. Whose translation of the Shah-nama did L'Amour prefer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some social activities that were popular in the West?

2. Who was Bodhidharma?

3. Why did L'Amour regret not stealing some books?

4. How did L'Amour meet a man named Gillespie?

5. When L'Amour settled down to write, what three categories was the magazine field divided into?

6. Why didn't L'Amour ever work on a story with anyone?

7. Why was infection rare in the earliest days in the mountains?

8. Why did a woman want a dentist to set a diamond in one of her front teeth?

9. After World War II when L'Amour was living in Los Angeles, where would L'Amour often go?

10. What was L'Amour's experience at Weepah?

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