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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is caching, according to the emigrants?
(a) Dumping items out of the wagon
(b) Removing furniture and burying it to prevent theft
(c) Putting food aside in rations
(d) Storing food they found on the trail

2. What book did Reed and Donner use for guidance?
(a) The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California
(b) California or Bust
(c) Go West, Young Man - Memoirs of Daniel Boone
(d) The Oregon Trail

3. What did the families do in the evening?
(a) Prepared for the next day.
(b) Relaxed
(c) They went to bed very early.
(d) They hunted.

4. What wild animal almost broke into the camp?
(a) Bear
(b) Hog
(c) Wolf
(d) Buffalo

5. What sight did Reed see as he rode ahead?
(a) He found abandoned wagons.
(b) He found water shortly ahead.
(c) People were unyoking their oken and driving them ahead to find water.
(d) There were corpses on the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were in the group when it was at its full strength?

2. How did the Reed women feel about the trip?

3. How old was Virginia Elizabeth Backenstoe Reed when the family left Illinois?

4. What happened to 13-year-old Edward Breen?

5. How did the Murphy clan and the Reeds and Donners get along?

(see the answer key)

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