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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter I-IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much will the narrator's brother be paid for his new job?
(a) Eight hundred dollars per month.
(b) Eighteen hundred dollars per month.
(c) Eighteen hundred dollars per year.
(d) Eight hundred dollars per year.

2. What is it that the narrator envies the most about his brother's new job?
(a) The status.
(b) The money.
(c) The social advantages.
(d) The hours.

3. What is it about the economy and people that the author is concentrating on?
(a) The consequences of the people on the economy.
(b) The consequences of the economy on the people.
(c) The way people spend money at certain ages.
(d) The way people lose money at certain ages.

4. What is Twain examining in Roughing It?
(a) The economic boom of the area he visits.
(b) The economic crash of the area he visits.
(c) The underestimation of the economy in the area he visits.
(d) The overestimation of the economy in the area he visits.

5. What job has the narrator's brother been given for the state of Nevada?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Governor.
(c) Secretary of Treasury.
(d) State Representative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal do the travelers shoot at as the stagecoach enters Nevada?

2. How does Twain describe the book in the Prefatory?

3. What is the narrative of Roughing It?

4. What is it about English that Twain is studying?

5. How long does it take the narrator and his brother to reach St. Joseph on the steamboat?

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