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Listening test 403 - questions

12) What is the talk mainly about?

The prospectors
The gold rush era
The forty-niners
Sutters mill
13) Why does the professor ask how the students likes the seating arrangement in class?
To see if anyone connects his name with the Gold Rush
To pay tribute to him for discovering gold
To compare him with John Marshall
To tell the students where gold was discovered
14) What does the professor say about the people who went to California

They traveled overland and by ship.
They came indroves
Neither of the above
Both A and B
15) According to the professor, of what significance was John Studebaker?

He was from the East
He made money by repairing wagons
He got rich by finding gold
He was one of the forty-niners
16) What does the professor say about the people who traveled to California by ship

Sailing around the tip of South America was the best way to go by water
Most stopped in Veracruz
They either came entirely by ship or came by ship and land
Stopping at the Isthmus of Panama was dangerous
17) Why does the professor say this
To spend later class periods on tale of the forty-niners
To tell one of those interesting stories
To make students think about life in a Gold Rush town
To change the focus of the lecture

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12. b
13. b
14. d
15. b
16. c
17. b