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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 days has the coach been traveling when it reaches Carson City?
(a) Twenty-six.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twenty-four.
(d) Twenty.

2. What is the result of the first fight between Slade and Jules?
(a) Slade is wounded.
(b) Jules is wonded.
(c) Neither is wounded.
(d) They are both wounded.

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

4. How many soldiers do the travelers encounter at Fort Bridger?
(a) One hundred and seventy.
(b) Seventy.
(c) One hundred and sixty.
(d) Sixty.

5. How much equipment is loaded into the wagon that the narrator and his friends take to the mountains for mining?
(a) Eighteen hundred pounds.
(b) Nineteen hundred pounds.
(c) Two thousand pounds.
(d) Twenty-two hundred pounds.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator's mining crew decide to visit after they stop digging their tunnels?

3. What gift does Capt. John Nye have?

4. What state in particular is the backdrop for the mining adventures described in the story?

5. What is the term Gentiles used to describe?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the story of Bemis and the buffalo, and how do the other passengers respond to it?

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

6. How does the narrator describe the Goshoot Indians?

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

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

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

10. How does the narrator help his brother in writing to the government for money?

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