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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did the travelers expect to be in the Great Salt Lake Desert?
(a) 14 days
(b) 7-8 days
(c) 1 very long and hard day
(d) 3-4 days

2. How many states were in the Union in the spring of 1846?
(a) 28
(b) 13
(c) 20
(d) 52

3. How did Virginia spend her days after leaving Missouri?
(a) Steering the wagons
(b) Reading to her grandmother
(c) On her pony
(d) Minding the little ones

4. What did the book they follow mostly consist of?
(a) Advice for travel
(b) Packing lists
(c) Weather reports
(d) Propaganda

5. What did the men do to the wagon wheels after crossing the Platte?
(a) They sanded them down.
(b) They added metal to them.
(c) They re-greased and re-set them.
(d) They completely dried them out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did James Clyman tell the travelers?

2. How many people were in the group when it was at its full strength?

3. Who joined the Donner party as they cleared the trail through the Wasatch?

4. Who possessed the west?

5. What was the hardest part of the trip?

(see the answer key)

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