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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Caw tribe like?
(a) They wondered what the travelers were doing.
(b) They were wise and offered traveling advice.
(c) They were hostile.
(d) They were peaceful.

2. What happened to James Reed after he killed Snyder?
(a) He was hung.
(b) Nothing
(c) He had to bury Snyder as punishment.
(d) He was banished.

3. What happened to William Eddie's oxen?
(a) They died of starvation.
(b) They wandered away.
(c) They were stolen and killed by the Paiutes.
(d) They were killed by members of the wagon train.

4. Why didn't Virginia join the group that went off for help?
(a) She was too young.
(b) She became ill.
(c) They needed her to babysit the little ones.
(d) She wasn't strong enough.

5. Why was Jean Baptiste Trudeau poking through the snow with a stick?
(a) He was looking for a forgotten ox.
(b) He was trying to find firewood.
(c) He was hallucinating.
(d) He was trying to find a lost child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Stanton recommend that the group do before crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains?

2. What sight did Reed see as he rode ahead?

3. What instinctive rule comes into play regarding cannibalism?

4. How long did it take the group to prepare to travel?

5. How did the rescue party find the survivors?

(see the answer key)

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