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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter LXXVIII - LXXIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the members of the party do before going to sleep on the winter night they are convinced will be their last?
(a) They begin screaming for help.
(b) They begin telling jokes.
(c) They begin crying.
(d) They begin criticizing each other.

2. Where does Boggs trick the narrator into waiting for him in hopes of getting a story?
(a) In a stage station.
(b) In a desert.
(c) In an abandoned warehouse.
(d) In a mine shaft.

3. What does the narrator find on the islands of Mono Lake?
(a) One abandoned mine on each island.
(b) Two pine trees on each island.
(c) Two abandoned mines on each island.
(d) One pine tree on each island.

4. When must work be performed on a new claim to prevent it from being relocated?
(a) Within thirty days.
(b) Within twenty days.
(c) Within ten days.
(d) Within forty days.

5. What is it about English that Twain is studying?
(a) The evolution of English as a non-diversified language.
(b) The stunted gwoth of English as a diversified language.
(c) The stunted growth of English as a non-diversified language.
(d) The evolution of English as a diversified language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What salary does the narrator start off with while working at the newspaper?

2. What title does Jack Williams hold at one time?

3. How are the names given to the accumulated claims described?

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

5. What is a nabob?

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