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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter X-XIV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Twain say was the root of all vices?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Desire.

2. What was Twain doing on this trip?
(a) Writing books.
(b) Giving lectures.
(c) Promoting his books.
(d) Relaxing.

3. What significant thing did Captain Cook do?
(a) Booked Twain's lecture tour.
(b) Settled Australia.
(c) Mapped out the Mojave desert.
(d) Invented the steam engine.

4. What mistake had the captain made with another ship?
(a) He went on the wrong course.
(b) He ran out of fuel.
(c) He sailed it into the rocks.
(d) He over-booked it.

5. Why didn't Twain travel to Queensland?
(a) He was tired.
(b) He had a lecture to give.
(c) He was sick.
(d) He had no interest in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the missionary say was slow to spread in his home country?

2. What did the Australian government pay bounties for?

3. What kind of expenditures did Twain discuss?

4. Why did Twain say there was little for the Australian governor to do?

5. Where was the Englishman on the ship from?

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