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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was another name for goats mentioned in Chapter 3?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Rams.
(c) Antelope.
(d) Gullots.

2. What did the name Casapy mean that the Crow Indians had given to Bridger?
(a) True Teacher.
(b) Guiding One.
(c) Good Follower.
(d) Blanket Chief.

3. Jim Bridger had to know more than just the layout of the country; he had to know how to do what?
(a) Guide a horse through danger.
(b) Live in the country.
(c) Teach new trappers the trade.
(d) Find the Indians.

4. When eight hundred Indians caught the Colonel napping in Chapter 3, how many men did they kill?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Thirteen.

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

6. In Chapter 9, it was mentioned that on average about one Mountain man was killed every how many days?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty Five.

7. Jim was able to have wages left over to buy blankets for what reason?
(a) To keep his bed warm.
(b) To use for his horses.
(c) To trade with the Indians.
(d) To give to his children.

8. Where did a trapper or hunter have to deposit what he brought in?
(a) Before the Captain's cabin.
(b) At the kitchen.
(c) At the front entrance of the fort.
(d) At the fort's storage closet.

9. From what tribe did Joseph Meek's wife come from?
(a) Sioux.
(b) Blackfeet.
(c) Crow.
(d) Snake.

10. When Washington Irving wrote about Sublette's brigade, he mentioned that there were what perched on top of some of the packs?
(a) Beaver pelts.
(b) Scruffy dogs.
(c) Black crows.
(d) Half breed children.

11. 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 Snake.
(c) The Arapaho.
(d) The Sioux.

12. How many miles away from Fort Kiowa was Hugh Glass when he came to on the Grand River?
(a) 200.
(b) 150.
(c) 125.
(d) 100.

13. Which tribe was allies with the Blackfeet Indians?
(a) Crow.
(b) Cheyenne.
(c) Gros Ventres.
(d) Sioux.

14. Who did Jim apprentice in a blacksmith shop?
(a) Phil Creamer.
(b) David Mackaws.
(c) John Colter.
(d) Louis Parker.

15. When the Blackfeet attacked the Americans in Chapter 6, how much were the beaver pelts worth that were taken?
(a) $4,000.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $2,900.
(d) $3,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Jim when his mother died?

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

3. When Old Ephraim ran across the Prince Maximilian party, how many rifle's worth of lead did he carry off with him?

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

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