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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the author start out on his journey?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Kansas City.
(d) San Francisco.

2. What do the assayers do?
(a) Negotiate the salaries of the workers in the mines.
(b) Evaluate the content of the rocks being mined.
(c) Evaluate the working conditions of the mines.
(d) Negotiate the type of payment for the rocks being mined.

3. Who does the narrator get to sign the requests for money to the government in order to help his brother?
(a) Drunks.
(b) Indians.
(c) Stagecoach drivers.
(d) Local lawmakers.

4. When does the coach begin to move across the Great American Desert?
(a) On the twenty-first day of the trip.
(b) On the nineteenth day of the trip.
(c) On the twenty-second day of the trip.
(d) On the eighteenth day of the trip.

5. How many pounds of luggage are the passengers allowed on the mail coach?
(a) Twenty-five pounds.
(b) Fifty-five pounds.
(c) Thirty-five pounds.
(d) Forty-five pounds.

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

7. How does the desert wanderer react when he is prevented from telling the same story about Hank Monk?
(a) He jumps off the stagecoach.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He begins telling jokes.
(d) He dies.

8. What kind of weapon does the narrator carry?
(a) A large 7-shot gun.
(b) A small 7-shot gun.
(c) A large 5-shot gun.
(d) A small 5-shot gun.

9. Which one of the following is NOT found in the Great American Desert?
(a) Indian money.
(b) Relics.
(c) Bones.
(d) Wagon parts.

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

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

12. How long does the narrator's crew rest in Carson City before heading back to Esmeralda?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Two days.
(c) One week.
(d) Four days.

13. Where does the narrator's mining crew decide to visit after they stop digging their tunnels?
(a) Winnemucca.
(b) Esmeralda.
(c) Twin Falls.
(d) Clark Lateral.

14. What is the author's goal in Roughing It?
(a) To become rich with as much effort as it takes.
(b) To become rich with little effort.
(c) To travel across the country three times within a year.
(d) To travel across the country twice within a year.

15. What animal do the travelers shoot at as the stagecoach enters Nevada?
(a) Deer.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Squirrels.
(d) Ducks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the party reaches Esmeralda, how much do they conclude that the claims they have are worth?

2. What is it that the narrator envies the most about his brother's new job?

3. How many miles away from St. Joseph have the narrator and his brother traveled by the end of Chapter IX?

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

5. How do the other travelers react to Bemis' story about the buffalo that chased him?

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