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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 Unionville built around?
(a) An ocean.
(b) A desert.
(c) A forest.
(d) A canyon.

2. How many novels had Mark Twain written before Roughing It?
(a) None.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

3. In the story the narrator tells, how is Hank Monk taken to his destination?
(a) Slowly in a stagecoach.
(b) At high speed on horseback.
(c) At high speed in a stagecoach.
(d) Slowly on horseback.

4. As the weapon carried by Bemis, what is the Allen revolver known for?
(a) Its reliability.
(b) Its large size.
(c) Its unreliability.
(d) Its small size.

5. How much will the narrator's brother be paid for his new job?
(a) Eight hundred dollars per month.
(b) Eighteen hundred dollars per year.
(c) Eight hundred dollars per year.
(d) Eighteen hundred dollars per month.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the Great American Desert?

2. How much do the seats aboard the mail coach heading towards Carson City cost for the narrator and his brother?

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

4. What type of mines does the author encounter in the book?

5. What moves Morgan's house on top of Hyde's ranch?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the Goshoot Indians?

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

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

4. What is the Great American Desert like, and what is interesting about Carson Lake?

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

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

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

8. How does the narrator begin his journey in Chapter I?

9. What are the limitations of the stage coach that is going to Carson City, Nevada, and which items does the narrator take with him?

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

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