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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was NOT something mentioned by the narrator in his list of items that could be bought in the Kumharsen Serai?
(a) Persian cats.
(b) Turquoise.
(c) Ponies.
(d) Spurs.

2. Before leaving Dravot and Carnehan alone, the narrator told them to leave by what time?
(a) 7 p.m.
(b) 3 p.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 9 p.m.

3. Upon what object did Carnehan and Dravot sit within the newspaper office?
(a) A table.
(b) A counter.
(c) A crate.
(d) A bench.

4. What type of politics did the narrator and his new acquaintance discuss on the train?
(a) Loaferdom.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Communism.

5. How many months of the year did the narrator say newspaper offices are often empty?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

6. The narrator states on the first page of the story that he feared that his "King" (3) had met what fate?
(a) He was executed.
(b) He was deposed.
(c) He was dead.
(d) He was taken hostage.

7. To what location was the narrator traveling?
(a) To the Indian Desert.
(b) To the Gobi Desert.
(c) To the Sahara Desert.
(d) To the Mojave Desert.

8. What was the coldest temperature the newspaper office ever reached, according to the narrator?
(a) 100 degrees.
(b) 72 degrees.
(c) 91 degrees.
(d) 84 degrees.

9. When the narrator found the man to whom he had promised to deliver the message, what was the man's main identifying feature?
(a) A black beard.
(b) A blonde beard.
(c) A brown beard.
(d) A red beard.

10. On what did Carnehan want to spend his only remaining money?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Dinner.
(c) Tea.
(d) Lunch.

11. Dravot told the narrator that he and Carnehan were just "two" examples of what type of lunatic?
(a) Harmless.
(b) Raving.
(c) Helpless.
(d) Cunning.

12. How many men stood in the narrator's way when he moved to leave the newspaper office?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

13. Dravot said that it was not worth getting to know the names of what?
(a) The native plants.
(b) The native animals.
(c) The current kings.
(d) The neighboring tribes.

14. The narrator told Darvot and Carnehan that the country to which they were going was "a mass of mountains and peaks and" (16) what?
(a) Marshes.
(b) Glaciers.
(c) Deserts.
(d) Forests.

15. What time did Dravot and Carnehan name when they told the narrator they would see themselves out?
(a) 30 minutes hence.
(b) 4 hours hence.
(c) 2 hours hence.
(d) 6 hours hence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnehan remarked that the contract forbade he and Dravot from getting involved with how many of the "things that make life worth having" (19)?

2. Carnehan said that he and Dravot were frightened of nothing but what?

3. What was the Backwoodsman?

4. Carnehan tells the narrator that he and Dravot had seen what sign of life within the newspaper office?

5. Most of the newspaper was what, according to the narrator?

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