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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many miles from Salt Lake City does Chapter XIX begin?
(a) One hundred.
(b) One hundred and fifty.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) Two hundred and fifty.

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

3. How much equipment is loaded into the wagon that the narrator and his friends take to the mountains for mining?
(a) Two thousand pounds.
(b) Twenty-two hundred pounds.
(c) Nineteen hundred pounds.
(d) Eighteen hundred pounds.

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

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

6. What happens to the mules as they become tired from the heat of the desert?
(a) They refuse to pull the coach.
(b) They lean up against the coach, causing it to turn over.
(c) They pull the coach in circles.
(d) They pull the coach in the wrong direction.

7. How much per week is the narrator paid for his work at the mill?
(a) Ten dollars.
(b) Twenty dollars.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) Fifteen dollars.

8. According to the driver, what lake do the Mormons gather saleratus from?
(a) Burlington Lake.
(b) Soda Lake.
(c) La Prele Reservoir.
(d) Gray Rocks Reservoir.

9. What is the Washoe Zephyr?
(a) A dense, dusty wind that blows for twelve hours straight.
(b) A dense, dusty wind that blows for fifteen hours straight.
(c) A transparent, dusty wind that blows for twelve hours straight.
(d) A transparent, dusty wind that blows for fifteen hours straight.

10. How often are the horses switched that are pulling the mail coach on the way to Carson City?
(a) Every twenty miles.
(b) Every fifteen miles.
(c) Every ten miles.
(d) Every five miles.

11. How many soldiers do the travelers encounter at Fort Bridger?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Sixty.
(c) One hundred and sixty.
(d) One hundred and seventy.

12. How much do the seats aboard the mail coach heading towards Carson City cost for the narrator and his brother?
(a) One hundred dollars total.
(b) One hundred and fifty dollars total.
(c) One hundred dollars each.
(d) One hundred and fifty dollars each.

13. What moves Morgan's house on top of Hyde's ranch?
(a) A tornado.
(b) A landslide.
(c) An avalanche.
(d) A hurricane.

14. Which area is rumored to be rich with silver?
(a) Rye Patch.
(b) Rose Creek.
(c) Humboldt County.
(d) Mill City.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. Where was Slade born?

3. When do the narrator and his friends begin their trip to mine for silver?

4. What causes the driver to lose the road one night?

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

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