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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term Gentiles used to describe?
(a) The name the Mormons give to people who do not follow their religion.
(b) The name given to the Indians by the Mormons.
(c) The name given to tourists by Mormons who stop through their town.
(d) The name given to the Mormons by tourists.

2. How fast does a Pony Express rider travel?
(a) The same speed as a stagecoach.
(b) Three times as fast as a stagecoach.
(c) Twice as fast as the stagecoach.
(d) Half as fast as the stagecoach.

3. How long is the Great American Desert?
(a) Sixty miles.
(b) Thirty miles.
(c) Fifty Miles.
(d) Forty miles.

4. How many feet of dirt is Hyde's ranch buried underneath?
(a) Forty-eight.
(b) Eighty-three.
(c) Thirty-eight.
(d) Eighty-four.

5. Where is the author traveling to?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) San Diego.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) St. Louis.

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

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

8. When does the great Indian Mail Robbery take place?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1846.
(d) 1856.

9. Who warns the narrator's crew about the rising rivers?
(a) The town sheriff.
(b) Town drunks.
(c) Indians.
(d) The innkeeper.

10. What aspects of nature will be discussed in Roughing It?
(a) The transformation of nature by man.
(b) The destruction of man by nature.
(c) The transformation of man by nature.
(d) The destruction of nature by man.

11. What is it that the narrator envies the most about his brother's new job?
(a) The money.
(b) The social advantages.
(c) The status.
(d) The hours.

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

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

14. Where are the vigilantes from that hang Slade?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) California.
(c) Montana.
(d) Iowa.

15. What eventually happens to Jules?
(a) He is run over by a stagecoach.
(b) He is killed by Slade.
(c) He is killed by Indians.
(d) He disappears and is never heard from again.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the narrator's mining crew forced to stay at Honey Lake Smith's Inn?

2. What does the narrator's party shoot at to start a fire?

3. According to the narrator, how are the profits of the mining industry in Nevada glorified?

4. What is interesting about Carson Lake?

5. How many pounds of luggage are the passengers allowed on the mail coach?

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