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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. In the beginning of Chapter 25, what day of the year did the Sioux steel the horses at 5 o'clock in the morning?
(a) July 17th.
(b) July 4th.
(c) June 21st.
(d) June 3rd.

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

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

4. How many men did Sir George Gore have in his entourage?
(a) 55.
(b) 50.
(c) 62..
(d) 37.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 26, who said he was "sure a single company of regulars could whip a thousand Indians"?

2. General Connor ordered his men to kill any male over the age of what?

3. What was the name of the Cheyenne chief in Chapter 25?

4. The Indians and Mountain men always hunted for what two reasons?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In 1846, which party stopped by Fort Bridger and why?

2. How did Shotwell describe Jim Bridger in Chapter 24?

3. In Chapter 17, when the Cheyenne Indians brought the two scalps and offered them back to the Snake Indians, what happened?

4. What idea did Bridger develop when he experienced a number of emigrants coming to Fort Laramie?

5. When Bridger built Fort Bridger, he built four log cabins within the stockade. What were these four cabins for?

6. What were some of the mistakes that tourists made that stopped by Fort Bridger?

7. What quality Chapter 21 did Jim Bridger have that made him superior to other Mountain Men?

8. What was Fetterman's scheme to trick the enemy?

9. In Chapter 16, Bridger weny out with Kit Carson in the spring to what places?

10. In Chapter 18, what was the first move the Saints tried to make on the Mountain men, and what happened?

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