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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter LV - LXII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Jack Williams killed?
(a) While arguing with a friend.
(b) While drinking at the bar.
(c) While playing poker.
(d) While walking to his horse.

2. Where is the author traveling to?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) San Diego.

3. How does Twain describe the book in the Prefatory?
(a) Simple and pretentious.
(b) Complex and unpretentious.
(c) Complex and pretentious.
(d) Simple and unpretentious.

4. What does Capt. John Nye help the narrator's party find?
(a) Food for their horses, but not shelter.
(b) Food and shelter for their horses.
(c) Shelter for their horses, but not food.
(d) Food and shelter for the men, but not for their horses.

5. When do the narrator and his friends begin their trip to mine for silver?
(a) December.
(b) February.
(c) November.
(d) September.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does a friend suggest the narrator travel to and sell Nevada mining property?

2. How many wandering German brothers discovered the Whiteman Cement Mine?

3. Where are the vigilantes from that hang Slade?

4. What type of mines does the author encounter in the book?

5. Where is the mining business taking place during the time the book was written?

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