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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trapper rule concerning guns was similar to the rule of the Indian camps?
(a) No man should sleep with his gun empty.
(b) No man should fire a gun within the camp.
(c) No man should keep a gun to just himself.
(d) No man should keep more than one gun.

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

3. What day was Jim Bridger's birthday?
(a) May 16th.
(b) March 17th.
(c) April 10th.
(d) March 30th.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What tribe was named, "Big Bellies"?

2. In what year was the trappers rendezvous to be held in Pierre's Hole?

3. In Chapter 4, Joshua Pilcher was appointed sub agent for the campaign and was enabled to bring how many Sioux warriors into the fight?

4. What was the name of the steamboat that carried passengers up the Missouri beyond Franklin?

5. Why did Bridger and Fitzpatrick pass across the head of buffalo herds to cover their tracks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Even though beaver pelts were still plentiful, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was struggling. What were some of the reasons for these struggles?

2. In the old days of rendezvous trappers, how did the trappers live like lords?

3. Why was it important for Jim to know more than the lay out or topography of the land?

4. In Chapter 8, why were Jim and Tom leading Vanderburgh on a "wild goose chase"?

5. Why did Captain Sir William Drummond Stuart make people stare?

6. What were some of the things Jim and Tom did to throw Vanderburgh off their trail?

7. Who hated the American Fur Company and why?

8. What significance did Dr. Marcus Whitman have in Jim Bridger's life?

9. During the months when finding beavers and hunting furs wasn't easy, what kind of work did the men do so that they would still have work during the winters?

10. Why did the Crow chief come into Bridger's camp with forty men to request a truce?

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