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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weather like when the narrator encounters the highway bandits after a lecture?
(a) It is raining.
(b) It is cold.
(c) It is hot.
(d) It is mild.

2. Where does Higbie go on the same day that the narrator leaves to take care of Capt. John Nye?
(a) To look for more mines.
(b) To sell their claim.
(c) To chase Mr. Whiteman.
(d) To visit a relative.

3. Where is the monument for Captain Cook located?
(a) Mokuakae Bay.
(b) Kealakekua Bay.
(c) Alika Bay.
(d) Kapilo Bay.

4. What is the Wide West?
(a) A newspaper column.
(b) A term used to describe the unsettled Nevada country.
(c) A novel.
(d) A mining company.

5. What state does a friend suggest the narrator travel to and sell Nevada mining property?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) New York.
(d) Connecticut.

6. How is the Whiteman Cement Mine described?
(a) Elusive.
(b) Buried.
(c) Accessible.
(d) Fabricated.

7. When does the narrator's party leave for Mono Lake?
(a) In the afternoon.
(b) At night.
(c) In the late morning.
(d) In the early morning.

8. Where is the narrator giving a lecture when he encounters the highway bandits?
(a) Amarillo.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Philadelphia.

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

10. How long does the narrator stay with Capt. John Nye to help him through his spasmodic rheumatism?
(a) Fourteen days.
(b) Five days.
(c) Nine days.
(d) Eleven days.

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

12. Whose funeral does the narrator witness while visiting Honolulu?
(a) Princess Alexandra.
(b) Princess Victoria.
(c) Princess Margaret.
(d) Princess Augusta.

13. How is Nookes thrown overboard from Blakely's boat?
(a) With his hands tied.
(b) With his ankles tied.
(c) With his face beaten.
(d) With his arm broken.

14. What is the only living thing in Mono Lake?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Leeches.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Worms.

15. According to the legend, how long ago was the Whiteman Cement Mine discovered?
(a) Fifteen years ago.
(b) Twelve years ago.
(c) Twenty-five years ago.
(d) Ten years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator examine for an hour in a mine in order to write an article?

2. What is pocket mining?

3. Why does Mr. Higbie join the narrator's party?

4. Why does the narrator resign as chief editor of the newspaper so quickly?

5. How long does San Francisco go without any rainfall?

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