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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Levi buy the Conestoga wagon?
(a) To help a friend.
(b) As a gift for his brother.
(c) As a promise to his mother to do better.
(d) To start a new life.

2. Where is the scientist from that Levi calls in Chapter 9?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Yale.

3. When Lame Beaver goes to steal horses from another tribe, how many people go with him?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

4. In Chapter 10, why does Levi's brother send Levi a letter?
(a) To try to buy land.
(b) To tell him he can divorce Lucinda.
(c) To tell him Jim found Clemma.
(d) To invite him over.

5. Why are people slaughtering buffalo in Chapter 9?
(a) Because the buffalo were ruining the farms.
(b) To take away the Native American food source.
(c) Because the hunters had new guns.
(d) To win a prize.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cottonwood Knee die?

2. Why does Amos Calendar collect bones in Chapter 9?

3. How does Buckford assume he will be able to run his cattle business?

4. Why doesn't Soren Sorenson give any money to Maude?

5. How does the press react to Leban Asher's plan to save the Native Americans from starvation?

(see the answer key)

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