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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days did the Donner party stop at Fort Bridger?
(a) Three.
(b) Ten.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

2. On what area of the body did Jim Bridger develop goiter?
(a) On his calf.
(b) Below his left eyebrow.
(c) Under his right armpit.
(d) Under his chin.

3. What was located in the corner of Mrs. Bridger's room?
(a) A baby bed.
(b) A churn.
(c) A rocking chair.
(d) A drying rack.

4. What was the name of Bordeaux's squaw?
(a) Holly.
(b) Francis.
(c) Linda.
(d) Marie.

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

6. In Chapter 14, the emigrants were liked to school boys lost where?
(a) In a women's kitchen.
(b) In a big railroad station.
(c) In the woods.
(d) Beyond the school house.

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

8. Chapter 16 mentions a cold afternoon when Bridger's dogs began to bark. Bridger peers through his loophole and sees how many dark figures?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

9. In Parkman's words, the poles that were used to erect the lodges were carried by what?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Men.
(c) Women and children.
(d) Horses.

10. What was the name of the paper where almost a whole page was dedicated to Jim Bridger?
(a) Frontier Sun.
(b) Kearney Herald.
(c) Buffalo Post.
(d) Missouri Journal.

11. The trail Jim Bridger proposed would later be the route of the Overland Stage, the Union Pacific Railroad, and what else?
(a) The Pony Express.
(b) The Mountain Man Rendezvous Camp.
(c) The Morman Calvery.
(d) The gold rush trail.

12. On the night of December 20th, who told everyone he must have one scalp before he left Fort Laramie?
(a) Captain Fredrick H. Brown.
(b) Angus MacDonald.
(c) Lieut. Glenn.
(d) Jim Bridger.

13. In Chapter 14, when Bridger decided to "set his moccasins on a new trail" his experience was likened to that of whom?
(a) Charles Preuss.
(b) Kit Carson.
(c) Francis Parkman.
(d) Tom Fitzpatrick.

14. What was Jim Bridger's daughters name who he sent to Whitman Mission School?
(a) Mary Ann.
(b) Marie.
(c) Rebekah.
(d) Cynthia.

15. The Indians and Mountain men always hunted for what two reasons?
(a) Meat or pelts.
(b) Entertainment or money.
(c) Meat or game.
(d) Pelts or meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bridger left Fort Leramie, he rode back to Fort Bridger where he married a woman from what tribe?

2. What kind of animal's udder did Jim Bridger use to feed his new baby girl?

3. When Sir George Gore ordered all the irons raked from the ashes, where did he ask the men to throw them?

4. Jim Bridger once told a group of eager treasure hunters that on the top of a mountain they could find a great big what?

5. General Connor told Jim Bridger that his three columns were to meet at the mouth of what river?

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