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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Booshway- Chapter 11,12 and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many miles was the keel boat race up the Missouri that Manuel Lisa won?
(a) 1,150.
(b) 1,300.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 1,100.

2. In Chapter 2, who answered to the name "Major" when Bridger called it out?
(a) Louis Carter.
(b) Andrew Henry.
(c) Mike Fink.
(d) Colonel Ashley.

3. Pierre's Hole was home to what tribe that is described as the most implacable of tribes?
(a) Crow.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Blackfeet.
(d) Cheyenne.

4. When the Crow chief came into Bridger's camp and requested peace, what tribe did he name as being the one he needed help in fighting against?
(a) The Blackfeet.
(b) The Sioux.
(c) The Snake.
(d) The Arapaho.

5. When Bridger went to shake the chief's hand in Chapter 8, the chief pushed the muzzle of the gun down and Bridger fired automatically. Where did the the charge explode?
(a) Between Bridger's feet.
(b) Between a warrior's feet.
(c) Between Fitzpatrick's feet.
(d) Between the chief's feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a booshway?

2. How many Crow squaws guarded Joseph Meek?

3. In Chapter 7, who was the man that looked thin as a rail, red eyed, ragged, and unarmed?

4. In Chapter 8, who told Bridger not to be afraid because they knew the Indians and that they were his wife's relatives?

5. What color was Jim Bridger's horse that he mounted to ride off to save Joseph Meek?

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