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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While traveling west, why does Levi realize some families became stranded?
(a) They had broken wagons.
(b) Their horses died.
(c) They weren't trying hard enough.
(d) They ran out of supplies.

2. What does Maxwell Mercy stop Sam Purchas from doing while traveling west?
(a) Drinking too much.
(b) Selling his cattle.
(c) Burning his supplies.
(d) Killing Native Americans.

3. What is Pasquinel doing when he is killed?
(a) Trying to help his daughter.
(b) Trying to find gold.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Trying to find McKeag.

4. Why does Elly travel west with Levi?
(a) Because he kidnaps her.
(b) Because she doesn't have a job.
(c) Because she is supposed to marry Levi.
(d) Because she wants to leave the orphanage.

5. How does Levi's group manage to cross the Platte?
(a) They carry their supplies on their backs.
(b) They team up with another wagon.
(c) They leave the oxen behind.
(d) They pay someone to help them.

6. What ends Pasquinel's partnership with McKeag?
(a) Pasquinel hurts McKeag's daughter.
(b) McKeag threatens Pasquinel's son.
(c) Pasquinel takes McKeag's wife.
(d) McKeag robs Pasquinel's wife.

7. In Chapter 4, how many bullets does Lame Beaver steal?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

8. How long does it take Pasquinel to get the arrowhead out of his body?
(a) Years.
(b) An hour.
(c) Days.
(d) Weeks.

9. In Chapter 8, what type of cattle does Oliver Seccumbe want on his land?
(a) Red steppe.
(b) Australian lowback.
(c) Aubrac.
(d) Texas longhorn.

10. In Chapter 3, what animal does the narrator say is able to cripple bison?
(a) Man.
(b) A scorpion.
(c) A rattlesnake.
(d) A poisonous bird.

11. What does Lame Beaver do with the first gun his tribe owns?
(a) He trades it away.
(b) He fires it.
(c) He breaks it.
(d) He throws it away.

12. What happens when word reaches Levi about the cattle in Chapter 8?
(a) Levi closes his store to celebrate.
(b) Riders come to Levi's trading post.
(c) Levi yells it to everyone outside.
(d) Someone tries to buy the cattle from Levi.

13. How does Jake Pasquinel die?
(a) He starves.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is hung.

14. Why do fur traders hit Pasquinel with an oar?
(a) He tries to defend the Native Americans.
(b) He wants his pelts back.
(c) He wants to travel with them.
(d) He tries to steal their boat.

15. How much money does Levi give the emigrants heading back east?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) Forty dollars.
(c) Thirty dollars.
(d) Twenty dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lame Beaver manage to kill Never-Death?

2. What information does Pasquinel believe Clay Basket refuses to tell him?

3. Why does Sam Purchas suggest Levi sell his horses?

4. How does Cottonwood Knee die?

5. Why is Never-Death so difficult to kill?

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