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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal swims across the river in this chapter?
(a) A grizzly bear
(b) A wolf
(c) A coyote
(d) A buffalo

2. What does the Corps buy from a trading cargo?
(a) Guns
(b) Limes
(c) Buffalo grease
(d) Meat

3. Which member of the Corps dies in this chapter?
(a) Sergeant Floyd
(b) George Labiche
(c) Captain Clark
(d) Captain Lewis

4. What are prairie dogs rumored to live with?
(a) Sheep
(b) Frogs
(c) Snakes or lizards
(d) Goats

5. What tribe are the Indian boys that the Corps meets at the end of the chapter from?
(a) York
(b) Panshees
(c) Coyote
(d) Teton

6. What does the Corps call the collection of Mandan villages?
(a) Texas
(b) Toy Town
(c) Mandan City
(d) Dodge City

7. What does Lewis put on the canoes to show the Indians they are not enemies?
(a) Colored rope
(b) Flags
(c) Buffalo heads
(d) Chicken heads

8. What is Newman's punishment for mutinous expression?
(a) Imprisonment
(b) No food for three days
(c) Electric chair
(d) 75 lashes

9. Who does the man who visits two days before Christmas want to make peace with?
(a) God
(b) The officer he thought slept with his wife
(c) His wife
(d) The Mandan Indians

10. What do the people who don't take part in the majority of the celebration do on Christmas Day?
(a) Play football
(b) Go for a walk
(c) Hunt
(d) Play cards

11. What is the name of the Corps' hunter?
(a) John Collins
(b) George Drouilliard
(c) Willliam Warner
(d) Hugh Hall

12. What does Sacagawea call her child?
(a) Jean-Baptiste
(b) White Goat
(c) Phillip
(d) Crying Coyote

13. What two animals does Valle say live in the Black Mountains?
(a) Frogs and toads
(b) Lions and tigers
(c) Grizzy bears and goats
(d) Coyote and wolves

14. What is the antelope not very good at?
(a) Running
(b) Swimming
(c) Fighting
(d) Mating

15. What is Captain Lewis still recovering from in this chapter?
(a) Small pox
(b) Cobalt poisoning
(c) A hangover
(d) A cold

Short Answer Questions

1. What material do the men use to build huts?

2. What does Lewis worry about finding material to make?

3. Whose protection does the captain say a warring nation will lose?

4. What kind of animal in America catches the antelope when it enters the water?

5. What does Jean Valle operate from his house?

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