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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 makes the snow-covered mountains especially impressive to the narrator?
(a) The season.
(b) The weather.
(c) The lack of snow on the tops.
(d) The abundance of snow on the tops.

2. What causes the mining stocks to fall quickly?
(a) Nevada gets a new Governor.
(b) Nevada attempts to secede from the Union.
(c) Nevada gets a new Secretary of State.
(d) Nevada becomes another state of the Union.

3. What is it about English that Twain is studying?
(a) The evolution of English as a 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 non-diversified language.

4. What does the narrator's party shoot at to start a fire?
(a) A pile of dirt.
(b) A pile of leaves.
(c) A pile of sage bush.
(d) A pile of loose branches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two bodies of water do the streams at the top of the South Pass empty into?

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

3. Where does the narrator's mining crew decide to visit after they stop digging their tunnels?

4. Where is the narrator giving a lecture when he encounters the highway bandits?

5. What is Twain examining in Roughing It?

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