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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. What was a booshway?
(a) A new trapper.
(b) A boss.
(c) An Indian scout.
(d) A teacher.

2. In the beginning of Chapter 25, when French Pete's wife and children were discovered, it was discovered that the Indians had not killed what?
(a) Pete's mother.
(b) Pete's animals.
(c) Pete's father.
(d) Pete.

3. General Connor told Jim Bridger that his three columns were to meet at the mouth of what river?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Greene.
(d) Tongue.

4. In the same year that Jim Bridger was born, Lewis and Clark set out up what river?
(a) Yellowstone River.
(b) Red River.
(c) Missouri River.
(d) Mississippi River.

5. What did Jim Bridger find on the side of a trail that had Indian signs marked on them?
(a) Peace pipes.
(b) Buffalo skulls.
(c) Horse saddles.
(d) Indian belts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the name Casapy mean that the Crow Indians had given to Bridger?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 20, where did President Buchanan order troops to be sent?

3. When Washington Irving wrote about Sublette's brigade, he mentioned that there were what perched on top of some of the packs?

4. On what area of the body did Jim Bridger develop goiter?

5. Which tribe was allies with the Blackfeet Indians?

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