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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Reed going on to do?
(a) Find Hastings
(b) Get food for the travelers
(c) Negotiate with the Indians
(d) He was racing ahead to bring back help.

2. What did the travelers do before they headed across the desert?
(a) They wrote letters to send back to their relatives.
(b) They made hats to protect themselves from sand and sun.
(c) They prayed.
(d) They rested for a few days in the beautiful valley.

3. How did Pike die?
(a) He died of infection.
(b) He was murdered.
(c) His pistol accidentally fired off as he reloaded it.
(d) He died of illness.

4. What instinctive rule comes into play regarding cannibalism?
(a) They kept their eyes shut while eating.
(b) People only ate their loved ones.
(c) No-one talked about it.
(d) Members of a family try not to eat their own dead.

5. What happened to Virginia's aunt according to her stories?
(a) She learned how to become a tracker from the Indians.
(b) She fought against the Indians.
(c) She was held hostage by Indians.
(d) She became an Indian princess.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would James keep in touch with his family?

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

3. Where was James Reed from originally?

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

5. Who was the first snowshoer to die?

(see the answer key)

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