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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many miles would the cutoff save them?
(a) 30
(b) 750
(c) 100
(d) 400

2. Who went off to find help nine days before Christmas?
(a) The snowshoers
(b) Virginia Reed
(c) Virginia's mother
(d) James Reed

3. What did the skilled explorers find about Hastings shortcut?
(a) It was fine if the travelers were experts.
(b) It was tricky in areas.
(c) Traveling it with oxen would be suicide.
(d) It was easier to travel than they had thought.

4. How fast was the Donner Party moving as they blazed through the Wasatch?
(a) 8 miles a day
(b) 15 miles a day
(c) 2 miles a day
(d) 10 miles a day

5. Why was sitting difficult for them?
(a) There was no furniture.
(b) They no longer had fat on their bottoms.
(c) They got too cold sitting in one spot.
(d) They were used to moving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the note from Hastings on the stick say?

2. Why did Bridger promote the shortcut?

3. What happened to the letters that Bryant sent Reed?

4. How with the group feeling by the time they reached the shore of the Great Salt Lake?

5. What happened to the dogs that were traveling with the group?

(see the answer key)

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