View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Slade reportedly do while he is being hung?
(a) Yells.
(b) Cries.
(c) Offers a bribe.
(d) Stays silent.

2. What type of mines does the author encounter in the book?
(a) Oil.
(b) Gold.
(c) Silver.
(d) Coal.

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

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

5. As they are having breakfast, what does Slade offer the narrator?
(a) The last two eggs.
(b) The last cup of coffee.
(c) The first two eggs.
(d) The first cup of coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days have the travelers been riding in the stage coach when they encounter the Goshoot Indians?

2. What is Unionville built around?

3. What aspects of nature will be discussed in Roughing It?

4. What gift does Capt. John Nye have?

5. Who does the narrator get to sign the requests for money to the government in order to help his brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the reality of the alkali desert as the narrator experiences it after leaving Salt Lake City?

2. How does the narrator live past the cold night, and what is ironic about the crew's actions afterward?

3. What causes the narrator to marvel at the sight of the Rocky Mountains?

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

5. What causes the narrator to work for a Quartz mill and how does his employment there end?

6. What is the experience the narrator has in buying a horse in Carson City?

7. How does the narrator describe the Goshoot Indians?

8. How long is the Prefatory in Roughing It, and what is its purpose?

9. What are Twain's views about the amount of information in the book, as he states in the Prefatory?

10. As stated in the Prefatory, what is Twain's intention in writing Roughing It?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 945 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample