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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chief of Scouts- Chapter 25 and 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Bridger's favorite racehorse?
(a) Tensly.
(b) Tracker.
(c) Grohean.
(d) Giddup.

2. Who told Bridger they wanted him to find a more direct route for wagons from Fort Bridger to the South Platte.
(a) Captain Howard Stansbury.
(b) General Richard Gerard.
(c) Kit Carson
(d) Tom Fitzpatrick.

3. Hugh Glass was a hunter from where?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Fairfax.
(c) New York.
(d) Pennsylvania.

4. Bridger was interviewed by a newspaper editor, but the editors friend told him not to take any stock in what?
(a) Mountain legends.
(b) Greenhorn stories.
(c) Indian folklore.
(d) Trapper's tales.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 14, Bridger and his men were riding over a ridge and the greenhorns mistook them for who?
(a) Raiding Blackfeet.
(b) Raiding Crows.
(c) Raiding Sioux.
(d) Raiding Snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Bordeaux's squaw?

2. At the fort Big Horn men were divided into messes. How many people were a part of one "mess"?

3. How many miles was the keel boat race up the Missouri that Manuel Lisa won?

4. After the Hugh Glass experience, Jim Bridger started to look out for other men. What nickname did he earn because of that?

5. What did the young Crow warrior strike Joseph Meek's wife with?

(see the answer key)

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