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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jim Bridger arrived at his home in Santa Fe, he had a son named what?

2. When Jim Bridger opened his gate after hearing someone knock, which of his friends was there?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 22, Jim Bridger is discharged on the last day of what month in 1865?

4. In what year did General Grenville M. Dodge summon Jim Bridger to act as Chief of Scouts?

5. What was the name of Bordeaux's squaw?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Jim Bridger know the first duty of a chief or an officer was?

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

3. Describe Fort Laramie.

4. What happened to the artist and correspondent named Ridgeway Glover who went on a walk unarmed one afternoon?

5. What are some of the things that Jim Bridger did to help the Mormons and their leader, Brigham Young?

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

7. Why did Jim Bridger's stay at home in Chapter 22 not last long?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the reasons given in the book to why Jim Bridger and Brigham Young didn't get along? What do you feel were reasons for the animosity between Bridger and Young? Do you think animosity is the right word? What other words would describe the relationship between Bridger and Brigham Young? Do you think these two individuals could have ever been friends? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think, as the years went by and towards the end of the book, there was more hostility between the white man and the Indians? What events and factors contributed to the crumbling relationship between the two races? What things do you think could have been done to mend the relationship between Indians and the white man? Use specific information from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the book, there are tales of men losing their wives, either to the Indian attacks or during childbirth. Jim Bridger had more than one wife that died in childbirth, and one child that was taken by the Indians and never seen again. How do you think the familiarity of loved ones dying affected the Mountain Men, especially Jim Bridger? Even after the Indians took his daughter, do you think Jim Bridger kept an open mind about the Indians? Why or why not?

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