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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did the travelers want to get to their destination by winter?
(a) They wanted to celebrate Christmas in a new place.
(b) The deep snows close the mountain passes.
(c) They were looking forward to warm weather in winter and no more snow.
(d) The mother was going to have a baby then.

5. Where was the family going to move to?
(a) California
(b) Oregon
(c) Texas
(d) Missouri

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times had George Donner emigrated?

2. What West Hastings' occupation?

3. What did the children suck on to bring forth saliva?

4. Who possessed the west?

5. What was the Hastings Cutoff trail like?

(see the answer key)

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