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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 wrote a law book that was the key to much western law?
(a) Blackstone.
(b) Williams.
(c) Browning.
(d) Davidson.
2. Who wrote the book that L'Amour had in his back pocket when he met Gillespie?
(a) Draper.
(b) Buckle.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Smith.
3. When did I-Tsing make a pilgrimage to India and the islands to study Buddhism?
(a) 345-375 A.D.
(b) 234 A.D.
(c) 672-692 A.D.
(d) 539 A.D.
4. What people group established themselves at Carthage and became a dominant power until destroyed by Rome.
(a) Arabs.
(b) Berbers.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Phoenicians.
5. Who wrote what L'Amour considered to be the best history of Japan?
(a) Charles Terry.
(b) Robert Wyatt.
(c) David Hampton.
(d) George Sansom.
Short Answer Questions
1. At what distance did Billy Dixon shoot an Indian off his horse?
2. How many men did Alexander have in his army?
3. In what year was L'Amour on a small ship off the Florida coast when a hurricane ripped Miami?
4. What was L'Amour's first motion picture?
5. Where was the small journal published that published some of L'Amour's poetry in Chapter 15?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did L'Amour say that the western pioneers were select people?
2. How did L'Amour believe that a people group could be understood?
3. Why did a woman want a dentist to set a diamond in one of her front teeth?
4. What did L'Amour remember about reading one cold night in Paris?
5. Why was L'Amour impressed by the memories of Arabs during the Middle Ages?
6. 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?
7. After World War II when L'Amour was living in Los Angeles, where would L'Amour often go?
8. What was L'Amour's experience at Weepah?
9. Why didn't L'Amour ever work on a story with anyone?
10. In Chapter 21, how did L'Amour get a typewriter?
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