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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. Where did L'Amour settle down to try to become a writer?

2. What writer did L'Amour say led off fiction about the American frontier?

3. Who was the black king of Haiti?

4. Who wrote "Ancient Geography of India"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did L'Amour believe that a people group could be understood?

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

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

4. Once L'Amour could no longer find the books he wanted in library, where did he have to find books?

5. How did L'Amour learn about the "Sejarah Melayu"?

6. Describe the brother and sister L'Amour met in Shanghai.

7. Who was Singapore Charlie?

8. What was Nalanda University?

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

10. Why was L'Amour impressed by the memories of Arabs during the Middle Ages?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 3, L'Amour drifted down to the sea for a job. Discuss L'Amour's experiences as a seaman.

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 1, L'Amour explained his views of what an education was and was not. Discuss L'Amour's definition and views of an education.

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