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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. Who does the Corps meet on September 12th?

2. What is the name of the Indian tribe they meet in this chapter?

3. What does the Corps name the Western fork?

4. What city does the Corps head back towards in this chapter?

5. What are the rivers divided by?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Clark give Yellept in exchange for his horse?

4. How do the captains divide the party on July the 1st in Chapter 22?

5. What does Clark tell the Pawnee and Teton tribes in Chapter 24?

6. How does Sacagawea surprise Lewis in Chapter 13?

7. How do the Indians greet the party in Chapter 14?

8. Describe the visit to the Indian village in Chapter 15.

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

10. Why is the trek across the Bitterroots Mountains so difficult?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the differences between leaders and followers? How can a team work well with a variety of individuals? Do you think the Corps works well together?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Look at the structure of the journals.

1) How did the editor edit and structure the entries of the journal to make it more entertaining?

2) What information do you think the editor decided against using and why?

3) How much of the real voice of the writers is lost by not presenting all the information?

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