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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the families do in the evening?
(a) They went to bed very early.
(b) Prepared for the next day.
(c) They hunted.
(d) Relaxed

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

3. What did the surface of the desert consist of?
(a) Copper-colored powdery sand
(b) Dust
(c) Salt and alkali
(d) Nipping mites

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

5. Why didn't the Donner Party see other travelers?
(a) Most people head passed through a month before.
(b) The others were still far behind them.
(c) Everyone was avoiding them.
(d) They were on a different route.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to William Eddie's oxen?

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

3. What did Sutter do?

4. How many states were in the Union in the spring of 1846?

5. What happened to James Reed after he killed Snyder?

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