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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. How many miles were covered between Green River City and Flaming Gorge?
(a) 76.
(b) 62.
(c) 34.
(d) 45.

2. How many people could the dwellings of the Ute accommodate?
(a) Over a hundred.
(b) Over five hundred.
(c) Approximately fifty.
(d) Over a thousand.

3. What did the men do at night on June 8th?
(a) Look at the stars.
(b) Play cards.
(c) Hunt buffalo.
(d) Repair a thermometer.

4. What is the river like in the Canyon of Lodore?
(a) Fast moving current.
(b) Calm water.
(c) Rapids.
(d) Sandbars.

5. Who went to retrieve the lost items in the Canyon of Lodore?
(a) Sumner and Dunn.
(b) Powell.
(c) Howland and Goodman.
(d) Hawkins and Hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which boat was lost for a short time in the rapids near the end of the Canyon of Lodore?

2. What is the name of the canyon the group explores on May 26th?

3. The Colorado River forms where which two rivers meet?

4. What kind of homes did the Tewan Indians build?

5. What do the Terrace Plateaus not have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the names of the boats in Powell's journey?

2. What is the Mogollon Escarpment?

3. Describe the group's first day down the river.

4. Which Native American tribes lived in the Colorado River Valley?

5. Why do you think they named one area Beehive Point?

6. What Indian tribes inhabited the Terrace Plateaus?

7. What are the north-south lines in between the cliffs and plateaus?

8. How did the party get through difficult falls?

9. What piece of equipment was lost in the wreck at Disaster Falls and how was it retrieved?

10. What is the most important salt lake?

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