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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What items belonging to the hunting party are found to have blown away during the blizzard?
(a) Two cups.
(b) Two forks.
(c) Two plates.
(d) Two blankets.

2. What is the hotel clerk's reply when Andrews asks the clerk if he knows a man by a particular name?
(a) The clerk replies that he has never heard the name before.
(b) The clerk replies that he does know the man and so does everyone else.
(c) The clerk replies that they do not meet many strangers in Butcher's Crossing.
(d) The clerk replies that he will need to be paid for any information he provides.

3. What type of shelter do the men construct once they figure out they are snowed in for the winter?
(a) A lean-to.
(b) A log cabin.
(c) An igloo.
(d) A teepee.

4. After how many days of sleeping in a snow mound does Andrews wake to find snow everywhere upon the land?
(a) 1.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

5. Miller states that it is "likely as not" (184) that Schneider has done what in the night?
(a) Frozen to death.
(b) Stolen the buffalo hides.
(c) Taken off for home.
(d) Drunk the last of the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a type of business operating within the town of Butcher's Crossing?

2. McDonald tells Miller that the whole buffalo hide business is what?

3. When the hunting party comes upon a man traveling from Ohio to California, what problem is the man having?

4. The hunting party leaves Butcher's Crossing on the 25th day of what month?

5. Who constructs a tent out of canvas and wood once the hunting party sets up camp in the valley?

(see the answer key)

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