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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Reed and Donner use for guidance?
(a) Go West, Young Man - Memoirs of Daniel Boone
(b) The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California
(c) California or Bust
(d) The Oregon Trail

2. How many wagons did the Reeds lose in the desert?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c)
(d) 3

3. How with the group feeling by the time they reached the shore of the Great Salt Lake?
(a) Worn-out and discouraged
(b) Tired but happy
(c) Euphoric
(d) Angry

4. What sight did Reed see as he rode ahead?
(a) He found water shortly ahead.
(b) He found abandoned wagons.
(c) People were unyoking their oken and driving them ahead to find water.
(d) There were corpses on the ground.

5. Why did Sarah Keyes join the wagon train?
(a) She was ready for a new adventure.
(b) She couldn't bear the thought of having her grandchildren leave her.
(c) She wanted to see her son who lived out west.
(d) She would have been homeless if she stayed there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is caching, according to the emigrants?

2. How do people get across the great Salt Lake Desert in today's world?

3. How many miles would the cutoff save them?

4. What did the interior of the wagon remind Virginia of?

5. What did the families do in the evening?

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