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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chief of Scouts- Chapter 27, 28 and 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the rest of the men came in after Joseph Meek, what did Jim Bridger fix for them to eat?
(a) Cowboy pie.
(b) Hot meat.
(c) Buffalo skins.
(d) Corn husks.

2. In the opening of Chapter 16, where was Brigham Young's caravan headed?
(a) California.
(b) Salt Lake.
(c) Yellowstone.
(d) St. Louis.

3. Who described Jim Bridger as having the eyes of an eagle in Chapter 22?
(a) Kit Carson.
(b) A.J. Shotwell.
(c) Captain Palmer.
(d) Tom Fitzpatrick.

4. When Sir George Gore ordered all the irons raked from the ashes, where did he ask the men to throw them?
(a) In a large hole that the men dug in the ground.
(b) Into the buffalo dung heep.
(c) Into the Missouri River.
(d) In the fire pit under the ashes.

5. How much was the fur harvest with that Captain William Sublette headed back to St. Louis with?
(a) $125,000.
(b) $150,000.
(c) $100,000.
(d) $170,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the older trappers was a more dashing Indian fighter?

2. What was the name of the steamboat that carried passengers up the Missouri beyond Franklin?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 22, Jim Bridger is discharged on the last day of what month in 1865?

4. In Chapter 9, what tribe did Bridger have to buy more horses from?

5. Where did Jim Bridger travel to give his opinion of the Mormons?

(see the answer key)

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