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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did L'Amour eat out of a can after he damaged the Model T?

2. Where did L'Amour send a review of the book "Anthony Adverse"?

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

4. What was the name of the magazine that published the first modern stories of science fiction?

5. When was "Erewhon" written?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were bookstores like in Chapter 10?

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

5. Who was Pete Petrolle?

6. How did L'Amour describe his life?

7. How did Shorty Harris lose a rich claim?

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

9. Why didn't L'Amour believe that the sites of the battles during the American-Indian wars was a matter of chance?

10. Who were some army officers who wrote about the Indian and his culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 8 L'Amour discussed how writers learn their trade. Discuss L'Amour's view of writing and his efforts to write.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss L'Amour mean when he said that t a writer's brain was like a magician's hat.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 11, L'Amour proposed that only someone who had learned much could appreciate his ignorance. Discuss why only someone who had learned much could appreciate his ignorance.

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