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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the narrator loses his job as a reporter, how long does he avoid everyone he knows?
(a) Two months.
(b) Five months.
(c) Four months.
(d) Three months.

2. How does the narrator get back to Esmeralda after taking care of Capt. John Nye?
(a) He rides with a family on their wagon.
(b) He takes a stage coach.
(c) He rents a horse.
(d) He walks.

3. What does the narrator do before he leaves to visit Capt. John Nye?
(a) He leaves a note on the door for Higbie.
(b) He stops by the trading post to get food.
(c) He leaves a note on the door for his brother.
(d) He stops by the doctor's office to get medical supplies.

4. How many people live in Carson City?
(a) Twelve thousand.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Ten thousand.
(d) Three throusand.

5. How much equipment is loaded into the wagon that the narrator and his friends take to the mountains for mining?
(a) Twenty-two hundred pounds.
(b) Nineteen hundred pounds.
(c) Two thousand pounds.
(d) Eighteen hundred pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hawaii called in the book?

2. How does the desert wanderer react when he is prevented from telling the same story about Hank Monk?

3. What makes the snow-covered mountains especially impressive to the narrator?

4. How many soldiers do the travelers encounter at Fort Bridger?

5. What are the followers supposed to bring back after they survey the east area?

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