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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Patrick Dolan die?

2. What happened to George Donner's hand?

3. What was Nancy Graves' emotional status after the rescue?

4. Why didn't the Piutes help the travelers?

5. Patty is the following items from everyone except for:

Short Essay Questions

1. What did they decide to do for food in order to survive?

2. What troubles did they face as they waited out the winter?

3. How did the members of the Donner Party interact when they reached California?

4. What was the Reed reunion like?

5. Why couldn't all the survivors get rescued at once?

6. What did William Eddy and William Foster find when they went to rescue their families? Who did they rescue?

7. How did they go about deciding who should be cannibalized?

8. How did William Eddy react to the plan that Williams Foster had- to kill the Indians?

9. What happened to the members of the Reed family?

10. How did Virginia deal with the idea of cannibalism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what the rescuers found when they came across the survivors. What condition were the people in? Use specifics.

Essay Topic 2

How did the journey to Independence, Missouri go, and what held them up? How did they feel about reaching the city?

Essay Topic 3

What did the group expect of the weather when they reached the Sierra Nevada? What decisions did they make, and what warnings did they have that they should have paid more heed to? Why didn't they heed the warnings?

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