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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters IV-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many buildings are described as making up the town of Butcher's Crossing?
(a) 12.
(b) 20.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

2. What is the canvas and wooden tent meant to protect?
(a) Gunpowder.
(b) The sleeping men.
(c) Guns.
(d) Oxen.

3. What objects do the members of the hunting party use to create comfortable beds once they set up camp in the valley?
(a) Sponges.
(b) Pine needles.
(c) Pussy willows.
(d) Grasses.

4. How many buffalo does Miller kill on the first day of the hunt?
(a) 70.
(b) 190.
(c) 40.
(d) 140.

5. Who drives the oxen team during the hunting expedition?
(a) Miller.
(b) Andrews.
(c) Charley.
(d) Schneider.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller states that people with what jobs will come to collect the buffalo bones?

2. What substance does the person who poisons the wolves use to poison them?

3. How does McDonald describe the town of Butcher's Crossing on the day Andrews first comes to see him?

4. What type of animal will be hunted during the hunting expedition?

5. By dark, how many "fair-sized trees" have the two men chopping firewood felled?

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