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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chief of Scouts- Chapter 27, 28 and 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The words "Hell's full of greenhorns" was known as what?
(a) The frontier gospel.
(b) The Mountain Man oath.
(c) The Indian and trapper agreement.
(d) The Indian wisdom.

2. In Chapter 26, there wasn't enough ammunition for what?
(a) Any of the Mountain Men.
(b) Target practice.
(c) All the soldier's guns.
(d) Killing animals for meals.

3. By what year was Jim Bridger wholly blind?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1881.

4. Who saved Cotton Mansfield when the Indians were running after him to get his scalp?
(a) Kit Carson.
(b) Tom Fitzpatrick.
(c) Jim Bridger.
(d) Captain Bonneville.

5. When Jim Bridger arrived at his home in Santa Fe, he had a son named what?
(a) George.
(b) Thomas.
(c) William.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the date Jim Bridger leased his claim to Fort Bridger to the government?

2. What did Jim Bridger love better than people?

3. What did Joseph Meek call his wife?

4. Washington Irving wrote about Sublette's brigade on the march. What does Washington write about Sublette's arm?

5. Why could the burial of the recovered bodies not be performed at once?

(see the answer key)

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