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

2. What do the members of the party do before going to sleep on the winter night they are convinced will be their last?
(a) They begin criticizing each other.
(b) They begin screaming for help.
(c) They begin crying.
(d) They begin telling jokes.

3. How long does the mining crew spend digging a shaft in their newly claimed mountainside?
(a) Two months.
(b) A few weeks.
(c) One week.
(d) Four months.

4. How many miles away from St. Joseph have the narrator and his brother traveled by the end of Chapter IX?
(a) Seven hundred and eighty-seven.
(b) Seven hundred and seventy-six.
(c) Six hundred and seventy-six.
(d) Six hundred and eighty-seven.

5. What is the tone of the book?
(a) Serious.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Fabricated.
(d) Formal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long is the Great American Desert?

3. Where is Hebert C. Kimball from?

4. Where does the narrator finally enjoy a great breakfast?

5. Where are the vigilantes from that hang Slade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the details of the court case between Hyde and Morgan, and what is the outcome?

2. What leads the narrator and his party to Esmeralda?

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

4. How is the breakfast that the narrator is served in Nebraska described, and what future traveling accommodations does he compare his situation to?

5. How does the narrator describe the coyotes he sees?

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

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

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

9. What is the weather like in Unionville and what does the narrator find there?

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

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