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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is caching, according to the emigrants?
(a) Removing furniture and burying it to prevent theft
(b) Dumping items out of the wagon
(c) Storing food they found on the trail
(d) Putting food aside in rations

2. Who did Foster want to kill?
(a) Their Native American guides.
(b) Patrick Dolan
(c) William Eddy
(d) Lem Murphy

3. What did the travelers encounter as they climbed the Sierra Nevada?
(a) A burning sun
(b) Illness
(c) New friendships with the Native Americans
(d) Snow

4. How many members of Forlorn Hope survived?
(a) 1
(b)
(c) 4
(d) 7

5. What wild animal almost broke into the camp?
(a) Wolf
(b) Bear
(c) Hog
(d) Buffalo

Short Answer Questions

1. How did they get the wagons down the canyons?

2. How did Tamsen Donner women feel about the trip?

3. How did Virginia spend her days after leaving Missouri?

4. How deep was the snow by the time they reached Truckee Lake?

5. How far into the established route did Hastings Cutoff appear?

(see the answer key)

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