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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XL - XLVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does the mining party abandon the digging of their mine for?
(a) Using dynamite.
(b) Selling the claimed ledges.
(c) Trading the claimed ledges.
(d) Using hired men to dig for them.

2. What newspaper does the narrator become the editor for after his mining career does not pan out?
(a) The Times.
(b) The Review.
(c) The Standard.
(d) The Enterprise.

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

4. How long is the train of Mormons that the stagecoach passes before the Rocky Mountains?
(a) Forty wagons.
(b) Thirty-five wagons.
(c) Forty-five wagons.
(d) Thirty wagons.

5. How many miles away from St. Joseph have the narrator and his brother traveled by the end of Chapter IX?
(a) Six hundred and seventy-six.
(b) Seven hundred and seventy-six.
(c) Six hundred and eighty-seven.
(d) Seven hundred and eighty-seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do the travelers stay at Salt Lake City before packing food and leaving?

2. Where was Slade born?

3. What state in particular is the backdrop for the mining adventures described in the story?

4. Which one of the following is NOT found in the Great American Desert?

5. When does the great Indian Mail Robbery take place?

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