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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is cannibalism?
(a) When you only eat soup
(b) A type of disease that infects children
(c) When you are overly aggressive
(d) The eating of human flesh

2. How with the group feeling by the time they reached the shore of the Great Salt Lake?
(a) Angry
(b) Tired but happy
(c) Euphoric
(d) Worn-out and discouraged

3. What did the travelers do before they headed across the desert?
(a) They made hats to protect themselves from sand and sun.
(b) They rested for a few days in the beautiful valley.
(c) They wrote letters to send back to their relatives.
(d) They prayed.

4. Hw many other people died the night Dolan died?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c)
(d) 4

5. How many people left with the first rescue team?
(a) 7
(b) 24
(c) 80
(d) 42

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to James Reed after he killed Snyder?

2. Who possessed the west?

3. How did they stay warm at night?

4. What was the weather like as the snowshoers traveled?

5. How did the native Americans help the snow shoers?

(see the answer key)

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