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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did the United States end?
(a) New Mexico
(b) Texas
(c) California
(d) Missouri

3. What happened to 13-year-old Edward Breen?
(a) He was murdered.
(b) He was lost.
(c) He died from illness.
(d) He fell off his horse and broke his leg.

4. What reputation did the 40 mile desert have?
(a) It was more beautiful than other deserts.
(b) It was forgiving for a desert.
(c) It was a death trap.
(d) It was a graveyard for abandoned wagons.

5. What did the travelers use instead of firewood to keep their fires going?
(a) Coal
(b) Straw
(c) Paraffin wax
(d) Buffalo dung

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the travelers want to get to their destination by winter?

2. Why didn't the Donner Party see other travelers?

3. Where was James Reed from originally?

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

5. What did James Clyman tell the travelers?

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