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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 what Indian reservation was Mancos Canyon located?
(a) Hualapai.
(b) Ute.
(c) Navajo.
(d) Hopi.
2. What languages did the man speak in addition to his native tongue who told L'Amour about the "Sejarah Melayu"?
(a) English, French, and German.
(b) English and Portuguese.
(c) German and Russian.
(d) Spanish, English, and Russian.
3. In what desert did L'Amour believe that the remains of an ancient civilization might be discovered?
(a) Nubian.
(b) Sechura.
(c) Taklamakan.
(d) Kalahari.
4. Where was the small journal published that published some of L'Amour's poetry in Chapter 15?
(a) Simpson College.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Emory University.
(d) Harvard.
5. When did L'Amour sell his first short story for cash?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1935.
Short Answer Questions
1. What book did L'Amour review that began his study of Africa?
2. 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?
3. 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. .
4. Where did L'Amour believe that a half-caste brother and sister he met in Shanghai died?
5. What desert did a part of five monks travel through in A.D. 399?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Nalanda University?
2. Why did L'Amour regret not stealing some books?
3. How did L'Amour meet a man named Gillespie?
4. What was the New Madrid earthquake?
5. Why did L'Amour say that the western pioneers were select people?
6. Why did a woman want a dentist to set a diamond in one of her front teeth?
7. When L'Amour settled down to write, what three categories was the magazine field divided into?
8. Once L'Amour could no longer find the books he wanted in library, where did he have to find books?
9. Why was L'Amour impressed by the memories of Arabs during the Middle Ages?
10. In Chapter 21, how did L'Amour get a typewriter?
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