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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter LV - LXII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it about English that Twain is studying?
(a) The evolution of English as a diversified language.
(b) The stunted growth of English as a non-diversified language.
(c) The stunted gwoth of English as a diversified language.
(d) The evolution of English as a non-diversified language.

2. How many novels had Mark Twain written before Roughing It?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

3. What eventually happens to Jules?
(a) He is run over by a stagecoach.
(b) He is killed by Indians.
(c) He is killed by Slade.
(d) He disappears and is never heard from again.

4. How many days has the coach been traveling when it reaches Carson City?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twenty-six.
(d) Twenty-four.

5. How long does it take the narrator and his brother to reach St. Joseph on the steamboat?
(a) Eight days.
(b) Five days.
(c) Six days.
(d) Seven days.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many miles away from St. Joseph have the narrator and his brother traveled by the end of Chapter IX?

2. Where does Boggs trick the narrator into waiting for him in hopes of getting a story?

3. What salary does the narrator start off with while working at the newspaper?

4. How long does the narrator stay with Capt. John Nye to help him through his spasmodic rheumatism?

5. How many pounds of luggage are the passengers allowed on the mail coach?

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