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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Navajo artist whose painting appeared on L'Amour's book, "The Haunted Mesa"?
(a) Jerome Bushyhead.
(b) Urshel Taylor.
(c) Dana Tiger.
(d) Cliff Brycelea.

2. How many Nobel Prize winners did L'Amour believe wrote in "Story."
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

3. Where did L'Amour's first contact in Shanghai come from?
(a) Greek.
(b) The Station.
(c) The Riot.
(d) Olympic.

4. What was the latest date on a collect of eight or ten books of ancient maps that L'Amour viewed at a chateau on the outskirts of Paris?
(a) 1321.
(b) 1549.
(c) 1475.
(d) 1618.

5. When did the Rev. Andrew Burnaby write "Through the Middle Settlements of North America"?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1801-1803.
(d) 1759-1760.

6. What was L'Amour's first motion picture?
(a) East of Sumatra.
(b) Searchers.
(c) Rebel Without a Cause.
(d) Rear Window.

7. Who was the black king of Haiti?
(a) Henri Christophe. .
(b) Leon Laleau.
(c) Georges Anglade.
(d) Emile Nau.

8. What people group established themselves at Carthage and became a dominant power until destroyed by Rome.
(a) Phoenicians.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Berbers.
(d) Greeks.

9. What city was Oak Creek Canyon near?
(a) Prescott.
(b) Clarkdale.
(c) Sedona.
(d) Cornville.

10. How old did Chris Madsen live to be?
(a) 85.
(b) Over 90.
(c) 93.
(d) About 80.

11. Where did L'Amour attend Officers' Candidate School?
(a) Camp Hood.
(b) Camp Robinson.
(c) Fort Worth.
(d) Fort Bliss.

12. How long was the sailing season from Egypt to India?
(a) 120 days.
(b) 90 days.
(c) 180 days.
(d) 200 days.

13. How large is the desert of Taklamakan?
(a) Size of Oklahoma and Texas combined.
(b) Size of Montana and Wyoming combined.
(c) Size of California.
(d) Size of Alaska.

14. When did Kumarajiva reach China?
(a) 401 A.D.
(b) 394 A.D.
(c) 572 A.D.
(d) 634 A.D.

15. What book did L'Amour read by Malcom Rogers?
(a) Humboldt to the Pacific.
(b) Conquest of New Mexico and California.
(c) Journey to the Rocky Mountains.
(d) Ancient Hunters of the Far West.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote what L'Amour considered to be the best history of Japan?

2. What writer and naturalist was on the spot when the New Madrid earthquake happened?

3. What languages did the man speak in addition to his native tongue who told L'Amour about the "Sejarah Melayu"?

4. How many years did it take for Flaubert to complete "Madame Bovary"?

5. What book by Byron might have been found on L'Amour's bookshelves?

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