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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 happens to the cities that once flourished during the Gold Rush?
(a) They disappear completely.
(b) Half of them are still there.
(c) Less than half of them are still there.
(d) Most of them are still there.

2. Where is the preacher, Erickson, originally from?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Montana.
(d) Wyoming.

3. What is the primary content of the Whiteman Cement Mine?
(a) Silver.
(b) Metal.
(c) Coal.
(d) Gold.

4. What is a nabob?
(a) People who go from being poor to rich quickly.
(b) People who gradually go from being poor to rich.
(c) People who spend their lives trying to become rich, but remain poor.
(d) People who have too much money to spend and try to become poor.

5. After the narrator loses his job as a reporter, how long does he avoid everyone he knows?
(a) Five months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Four months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator examine for an hour in a mine in order to write an article?

2. Where is the monument for Captain Cook located?

3. Why did one of the Germans give their map to Mr. Whiteman?

4. What bites the narrator during his stay in Honolulu?

5. How many days does the narrator give his first lecture for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Higbie, and why is he valuable for the narrator's search of Mr. Whiteman?

2. How does the narrator describe Hawaii and what initial setback does he encounter there?

3. What lifestyle does the narrator have in the first few months of his stay in San Francisco, and how does it change dramatically?

4. How long does the narrator stay in Hawaii, and in what way does the author's literary tone change in these chapters?

5. What is the new career choice the narrator makes towards the end of the book, and how does it begin?

6. What is the rivalry between Captain Ned Blakely and Bill Nookes?

7. How does the narrator describe the trip from Hawaii to San Francisco and what is his situation once he arrives there?

8. Why is the narrator's work never published in The Weekly Occidental?

9. What is pocket mining and the result of the narrator's attempt at it?

10. What causes the narrator to travel to San Francisco?

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