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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information does Pasquinel believe Clay Basket refuses to tell him?
(a) How to heal people.
(b) Where the money is hidden.
(c) Where the gold is.
(d) Where his children are.

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

3. How does McKeag die?
(a) Starvation.
(b) He is shot.
(c) Diptheria.
(d) Cholera.

4. Who takes over McKeag's job as an interpreter?
(a) Jake.
(b) Pasquinel.
(c) Lame Beaver.
(d) Levi.

5. How does Elly die?
(a) She is bitten by a rattlesnake.
(b) She becomes very ill.
(c) She is poisoned.
(d) She is shot.

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

7. What prompts the starvation of 1863?
(a) White men stealing crops.
(b) A drought.
(c) Over population.
(d) Native Americans losing land.

8. Why is Never-Death so difficult to kill?
(a) He wears armor.
(b) He has a large army.
(c) He is fast.
(d) He has magic powers.

9. What does Chapter 2 describe about the mountains?
(a) What they symbolize.
(b) How they will be destroyed.
(c) What they remind people of.
(d) How they were formed.

10. What does McKeag do to help Clay Basket after Pasquinel's death?
(a) He builds her a new home.
(b) He gives her money.
(c) He lets her live with him.
(d) He shows her where gold is.

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

12. Where is Dr. Lewis Vernor a professor?
(a) Colorada.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Utah.
(d) Georgia.

13. How does Cottonwood Knee die?
(a) He is stabbed.
(b) He dies of old age.
(c) He is poisoned.
(d) He is shot.

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

15. Where is the town of Centennial?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Utah.
(c) Georgia.
(d) South Carolina

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Becky jump into a sleigh with Levi?

2. How many horses does Levi attach to the Conestoga wagon?

3. What happens when John Skimmerhorn's group meets Lost Eagle's tribe?

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

5. How does Lucinda get her name?

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