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Undaunted Courage | Quiz

Stephen Ambrose
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1)

On their journey back to camp, Windsor and Lewis both (from Chapter 19 From Marias River to the Great Falls June 3 - June 20, 1805)

Determined this was the Missouri
Climbed cottonwoods for the view
Fell down numerous times
Nearly fell into a deep ravine
2)

Lewis felt deeply betrayed by the government's (from Chapter 37 Last Voyage September 3 - October 11, 1809)

Accusations of fraud
Refusal to pay his drafts
Attitude toward his governorship
Dismissal of his great work
3)

Lewis named many of the new rivers he found after (from Chapter 21 Looking for the Shoshones July 15 - August 12, 1805)

Government officials and politicians
Clark's family members
Jefferson's ancestors
Women he had known
4)

The men in the expedition were bound by the knowledge (from Chapter 20 The Great Portage June 16 - July 14, 1805)

They were dependent on Lewis
They might not survive
They needed to return safely
They were making history
5)

Lewis learns from Cameahwait that the Nez Perce Indians (from Chapter 22 Over the Continental Divide August 13 - August 31, 1805)

Were well educated
Fished the Columbia
Lived west of the mountains
Traveled north every year to hunt
6)

Lewis puts into place a number of rules to keep order at the fort, the primary one being that (from Chapter 25 Fort Clatsop December 8, 1805 - March 23, 1806)

There were to be no Indians within the compound
All outsiders must leave and the fort locked at sunset
No one was to carry a gun around the Indians
No drinking was allowed within the fort
7)

By the time Lewis reaches Grinder's Inn, he seems (from Chapter 37 Last Voyage September 3 - October 11, 1809)

To be feeling much better
Confident and rested
Drunken and disorderly
Irrational and deranged
8)

Complicating Lewis' depression, perhaps, was (from Chapter 38 Aftermath)

The loss of his father
His ongoing friendship with Clark
The side effects of curatives
His regret over not staying out west
9)

While on the Columbia, the primary interest of the group was to (from Chapter 24 Down the Columbia October 8 - December 7, 1805)

Stay dry and warm
Eat, drink and dance
Trade for otter skins
Reach the Pacific Ocean
10)

Lewis' attitude toward gold during this expedition was one of (from Chapter 21 Looking for the Shoshones July 15 - August 12, 1805)

Hope
Futility
Indifference
Excessive greed
11)

Lewis felt that within ten years, Americans would (from Chapter 31 Reporting to the President September 23 - December 31, 1806)

Be the biggest fur traders on earth
Settle the west coast
Be moving to Canada to avoid taxes
Easily make the journey across the continent
12)

Lewis idealistically thought that the Indians and white Americans would come together through (from Chapter 26 Jefferson and the West 1804 - 1806)

Commerce
Spirituality
Ideology
Acceptance
13)

The Shoshones removed their moccasins to smoke with Lewis, indicating (from Chapter 22 Over the Continental Divide August 13 - August 31, 1805)

Their respect for a clean blanket
Their sincerity in friendship
Their humility
Their interest in his mocassins
14)

Lewis described the Siouxs' ruling passion as (from Chapter 34 Virginia August 1806 - March 1807)

The love of gain
The love of trade
The buffalo hunt
The urge to battle
15)

The strange gunshot-type noise that came regularly from the northwest (from Chapter 20 The Great Portage June 16 - July 14, 1805)

Was a member of the expedition signalling them
Was a tribe of advanced Indians
Was Sacagawea's family looking for her
Has never been explained
16)

Two of the group stayed behind with the Mandans. They were (from Chapter 30 The Last Leg July 29 - September 22, 1806)

Sacagawea and Charbonneau
John Colter and Captain Clark
Dickson and Hancock
The Field brothers
17)

Lewis imagined a situation of trade which would allow (from Chapter 34 Virginia August 1806 - March 1807)

The Indians to remain on their lands
Forts to house Americans and Indians
Indians to travel freely to Washington
Americans to be hosted by tribal leaders
18)

One of the pleasures the expedition encountered was (from Chapter 28 The Lolo Trail June 10 - July 2, 1806)

The Indian guides' sense of humor
The flat, easy trails through the mountains
The hot springs at Lolo
The abundance of Buffalo at Lolo River
19)

Meriwether Lewis may have misused public funds by (from Chapter 36 St. Louis January - August 1809)

Buying expensive property for government agencies
Funding his own commercial venture with them
Drinking and carousing
Purchasing opium and alcohol
20)

Upon Lewis' death, the expedition journals fell into the hands of (from Chapter 38 Aftermath)

George Shannon
William Clark
Nicholas Biddle
Thomas Jefferson
21)

The author suspects that Meriwether Lewis was (from Chapter 24 Down the Columbia October 8 - December 7, 1805)

An alcoholic
An epileptic
A schizophrenic
A manic depressive
22)

Upon escaping a violent situation with Blackfoot warriors, Lewis burned (from Chapter 29 The Marias Exploration July 3 - July 28, 1806)

Nearly all of the Indians' belongings
Blankets and foodstuffs
A British musket
The hides under which they had all slept
23)

Ironically, Jefferson told visiting Indians that (from Chapter 26 Jefferson and the West 1804 - 1806)

We were at their service
They could have their own nations
No wrong would ever be done to them
Their goods were worth more than ours
24)

As they travel toward St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis feels that (from Chapter 30 The Last Leg July 29 - September 22, 1806)

He might never walk again
His diplomatic work with the tribes has worked
His entire Indian policy has fallen apart
He would rather stay in Yellowstone
25)

Lewis' men made wheels to drag their pirogues out of (from Chapter 20 The Great Portage June 16 - July 14, 1805)

Cottonwood trees
Bark and mud
Rounded rocks
Oak trees
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