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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 divides the Plateau Province?
(a) The Wasatch Mountains.
(b) The Great Salt Lake.
(c) The Wind River Mountains.
(d) The Black Mountains.

2. What obstacle did the group encounter on June 1st?
(a) An Indian tribe.
(b) Illness.
(c) Stron rapids.
(d) A waterfall.

3. What canyon after Flaming Gorge is named for its unique shape?
(a) Diamond Canyon.
(b) Boomerang Canyon.
(c) Horseshoe Canyon.
(d) Whirlwind Canyon.

4. Who went to retrieve the lost items in the Canyon of Lodore?
(a) Howland and Goodman.
(b) Sumner and Dunn.
(c) Powell.
(d) Hawkins and Hall.

5. Which Indian tribes inhabited the area from Fremont's Peak to the UIinta Mountains?
(a) Ute.
(b) Navajo.
(c) Shoshonean.
(d) Apache.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some of the rock displacements in Chapter IV are flexures instead of ______.

2. What previously unknown features in the high country did the Colorado River Exploring Expedition discover?

3. What is the cause of the cliffs in the Terrace Plateaus?

4. What kind of geographical feature is the Tavaputs?

5. Which of the following is a feature of the Plateau Province?

Short Essay Questions

1. Powell took ten men with him on the expedition down the Colorado. Describe one of these men.

2. What is important about Fremont's Peak?

3. Describe the rivers that feed the Colorado River.

4. Describe the Plateau Province.

5. What were the names of the boats in Powell's journey?

6. What did Powell begin his journey down the Colorado with?

7. The group often named places along the river for physical descriptions of the landscape or river. What examples of this are in Chapter VI?

8. Describe Glen Canyon.

9. What is the most important salt lake?

10. How did the group proceed when there were rapids?

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