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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. Who was one of the regular writers in "The Saturday Evening Post"?
(a) Whit Burnett.
(b) William Saroyan.
(c) H. L. Mencken.
(d) Clarence Budgington Kelland.

2. What writer and naturalist was on the spot when the New Madrid earthquake happened?
(a) Burnaby.
(b) Bradbury.
(c) Williams.
(d) Davis.

3. What book did L'Amour review that began his study of Africa?
(a) How I Found Livingstone.
(b) Out of Africa.
(c) The Africa Background Outlined.
(d) Through the Dark Continent.

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

5. On one (and possibly) three sides of L'Amour's family, how many generations have been in America?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Nobel Prize winners did L'Amour believe wrote in "Story."

2. 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?

3. What writer did L'Amour say led off fiction about the American frontier?

4. Who operated the Brown Derby in Hollywood?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't L'Amour ever work on a story with anyone?

2. When L'Amour began his writing career, how did he write?

3. Why did L'Amour believe he should have known better when he thought the U.S.S. Boise would get him home in 4-4 ½ days?

4. Once L'Amour could no longer find the books he wanted in library, where did he have to find books?

5. Who was John Mackay? .

6. Who was Bodhidharma?

7. Why was L'Amour impressed by the memories of Arabs during the Middle Ages?

8. Why did L'Amour say that the western pioneers were select people?

9. Why was infection rare in the earliest days in the mountains?

10. How did L'Amour meet a man named Gillespie?

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