1 |
When they found that Christopher was ______, they became friendly at once |
French
American
British
African
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2 |
Parts of the town in Salah are being _______ by the desert |
Swallow
Swallows
Swallowed
Swallowing
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3 |
He knew he was going to ______ so he made a desperate effort to avoid the blazing sand |
Clasp
Grasp
Crisp
Collapse
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4 |
The driver's genius for finding his way across the apparently trackless desert was a source of constant ______ to Christopher |
Amazement
Engagement
Arrangement
Recruitment
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5 |
El-Golea, a ______ miles on, was reached without further mishap |
50
100
200
300
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6 |
While out on the sand the thermometer registered _______ F. |
145
155
165
175
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7 |
In the shade of the mud house the temperature reached _______ F. |
100
110
120
130
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8 |
The greaser announced that one of the two goatskin bags of water had ________ |
Burst
Broast
Burn
Breast
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9 |
Their car had become stuck in a _______ dune |
Rook
Sand
Grass
Dust
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10 |
Christopher performed useful service in helping the greaser with this ______ operations |
Easy
Comfortable
Ardous
Complacent
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11 |
On the day of his arrival, he discovered that there was a ______ due to leave for El-Golea |
Aeroplane
Train
Boat
Truck
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12 |
Christopher was able to continue his hitch-hike to the ______ in leisurely manner |
South
North
East
West
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13 |
In Ghardaia anything that has the remotest relationship with food is covered with ______ |
Dust
Flies
Cloth
Paper
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14 |
In two hours a flask of cold water became hot enough to make _______ |
Lemonade
Pepsi
Tea
Syrup
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15 |
Timbuktu is near the river ______ in the extreme south of the great desert |
Nile
Indus
Mississippi
Niger
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16 |
Christopher's foster mother used to ______ to send him to Timbuktu |
Threaten
Allure
Seduce
Exhort
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17 |
Large parts were almost ______ in other parts there were just a few towns |
Inhabited
Uninhabited
Thickly populated
Fertile and green
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18 |
The full Sahara area, is many times the size of ______ |
France
Japan
Great Britain
Burma
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19 |
If a giant were to pick ______ up and put it down in the middle of the Sahara desert, we should have quite a task to find it |
England
America
Africa
Australia
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20 |
The name of the writer of "Hitch-Hiking Across the Sahara" is |
Leonard
Boog Watson
Jerome K Jerome
G.F. Lamb
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