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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter LXXVIII - LXXIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the driver to lose the road one night?
(a) A rainstorm.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A patch of mud.

2. What is interesting about Carson Lake?
(a) It has an infinite number of outlets.
(b) It has no known outlet.
(c) It has four known outlets.
(d) It has two known outlets.

3. What is the Wide West?
(a) A mining company.
(b) A term used to describe the unsettled Nevada country.
(c) A novel.
(d) A newspaper column.

4. How long is the Great American Desert?
(a) Thirty miles.
(b) Sixty miles.
(c) Forty miles.
(d) Fifty Miles.

5. Where do the narrator and a companion take their vacation?
(a) Mono Lake.
(b) Walker Lake.
(c) Pyramid Lake.
(d) Lake Tahoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job has the narrator's brother been given for the state of Nevada?

2. How many miles of mail service does the owner of the Division Superintendent oversee?

3. What makes the snow-covered mountains especially impressive to the narrator?

4. Who does the narrator get to sign the requests for money to the government in order to help his brother?

5. What idea does the mining party abandon the digging of their mine for?

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