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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. What are the rivers divided by?

2. Who does Clark name the tower after?

3. What do the Indians try to steal from the Corps in this chapter?

4. What does the Corps name the Western fork?

5. Whose advice does Clark follow in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems do the Wahclellahs Indians cause the party in Chapter 19?

2. Why does the Corps feel such great joy in Chapter 17 when it reaches the ocean?

3. What problems do the men endure as they make their way across the Bitterroot Mountains?

4. How do the captains communicate to the Indians in Chapter 16?

5. Describe the problems the party has have with Indians in Chapter 22.

6. Why does Clark name the sandstone structure Pompy's Tower?

7. How does Clark save the woman in Chapter 18?

8. What problems does the party have getting across the water?

9. Describe the journey back home.

10. What do the captains devise to make their journey across the mountain easier?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the buffalo symbolize in American culture? How does the buffalo symbolize different things to the American Indians than it does to the American whites?

Essay Topic 2

Why does the Corps want to journey down the Missouri River? Why has the river not been extensively explored before? What are the other rivers' relationships with the Missouri?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the importance of the buffalo to the American Indians within the following areas:

1) Religion

2) Everyday life

3) Survival

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