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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How often are the horses switched that are pulling the mail coach on the way to Carson City?

2. As they are having breakfast, what does Slade offer the narrator?

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

4. What is the term Gentiles used to describe?

5. What do the assayers do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the myth of the Pony Express Riders?

2. What is Roughing It about, according to the author?

3. What warning is the narrator and his party given as they approach the Honey Lake Smith's Inn, and what is their response?

4. What is the writing style of Mark Twain that is established in the Prefatory?

5. Why does the story of Hank Monk and Horace Greeley irritate the narrator so much?

6. What skills does Captain John Nye have, and how does he help the narrator and his party?

7. What role does the press play in the mining industry of Nevada and how does it affect the narrator?

8. What is the situation of Mr. Street and how does it provide an example of Utah's way of governing for the narrator?

9. Who accompanies the narrator on his trip to Humboldt County, and how does the first two hundred miles of their expedition go?

10. How does the author build up the anticipation for the book in the Prefatory?

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