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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XV-XIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Australian government pay bounties for?
(a) Captured criminals.
(b) Slave traders.
(c) Dead sharks.
(d) Run-away orphans.

2. Why was Twain never able to fulfill his pledges to himself?
(a) He couldn't control his desires.
(b) He was never really serious.
(c) He was not seeing the big picture.
(d) He never had the support he needed.

3. What did Twain take pledges to do?
(a) Forgive others.
(b) Learn something new.
(c) Break bad habits.
(d) Be perpetually kind.

4. What freedom was big in South Australia?
(a) Animal rights.
(b) Religious.
(c) Womens.
(d) Land owners.

5. Where was the Englishman on the ship from?
(a) Austrailia.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) England.
(d) South Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country had ceded the islands that Twain saw in September?

2. What mines in Australia did towns grow up around?

3. What significant thing did Captain Cook do?

4. When did the person pretending to be Sir Roger finally admit his hoax?

5. What was the profession of the man who pretended to be Sir Roger?

(see the answer key)

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