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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. How many rounds might L'Amour go in a day with Pete before he met Billy?

2. During the year that L'Amour kept track of the books he read, how many did he read while waiting for people?

3. What author was L'Amour reading when a pedantic professor gave him a ride?

4. How old was Pete Boering when L'Amour met him?

5. Where did Professor Percival Lowell study Mars?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did L'Amour believe that universities provided?

3. Why didn't L'Amour recommend his way of learning to others?

4. Describe the mine where L'Amour was to be a caretaker.

5. Describe the Indian who lived neared the mine L'Amour worked at?

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

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

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

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

10. What were bookstores like in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 14, L'Amour stated that books were valuable and must be preserved. Discuss the value that L'Amour place on books.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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

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