View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many days have the members of the hunting party gone without food by the time Miller rides up to look at the snow?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

2. For what reason does Miller say that the buffalo hunters they hear on the first night must not "have many hides" (76)?
(a) Because they are moving too slowly.
(b) Because they do not appear to have a skinner with them.
(c) Because they are moving too quickly.
(d) Because they are traveling deeper into the wilderness.

3. What substance does the person who poisons the wolves use to poison them?
(a) Nightshade.
(b) Morning glories.
(c) Strychnine.
(d) Arsenic.

4. When the hotel clerk asks Andrews when he had last had a bath, what month does Andrews name?
(a) December.
(b) February.
(c) August.
(d) June.

5. How much does McDonald say Miller could have gotten for the buffalo meat he left in the mountains to rot?
(a) $1 a pound.
(b) 2 cents a pound.
(c) 10 cents a pound.
(d) 5 cents a pound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Miller give the "huge saucerlike depression" (81) the party comes upon?

2. Who leads Charley toward the fire so that he will not freeze to death?

3. Who is the member of the hunting party responsible for hunting food so that the party can make it through the winter?

4. What does Miller do to help the man traveling from Ohio to California?

5. At what location do the remaining members of the hunting party find McDonald?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 307 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample