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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. What is the weather like when the narrator encounters the highway bandits after a lecture?
(a) It is cold.
(b) It is hot.
(c) It is raining.
(d) It is mild.

2. How long is the trip that the narrator sets out to take in the beginning of the book supposed to last?
(a) Eight years.
(b) Eight months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Three years.

3. According to the information in Chapter LXIII, how many people live in Honolulu?
(a) Twenty-two thousand.
(b) Thirty thousand.
(c) Twelve thousand.
(d) Twenty thousand.

4. How does Nookes die?
(a) He is burned.
(b) He dies from an illness.
(c) He is hung.
(d) He dies in jail.

5. Where does Boggs trick the narrator into waiting for him in hopes of getting a story?
(a) In an abandoned warehouse.
(b) In a mine shaft.
(c) In a stage station.
(d) In a desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the monument for Captain Cook located?

2. When does the narrator's party leave for Mono Lake?

3. According to the narrator, what is one of the hottest places in the world?

4. Why does the narrator resign as chief editor of the newspaper so quickly?

5. How long does San Francisco go without any rainfall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is finding a good horse a difficult task in Hawaii?

2. What difficulties does the narrator have in finding stories to write?

3. How does Nevada change during the flush times, and what are nabobs?

4. What lifestyle does the narrator have in the first few months of his stay in San Francisco, and how does it change dramatically?

5. How long is the narrator's trip, and what does he conclude at the end of the story?

6. What is the process of mining silver and shipping it to California in 1865?

7. What happens when the narrator encounters a band of highway bandits after a lecture?

8. What is pocket mining and the result of the narrator's attempt at it?

9. What is the new career choice the narrator makes towards the end of the book, and how does it begin?

10. What causes the narrator to travel to San Francisco?

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