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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the unofficial leader of the snowshoers?
(a) James Reed
(b) William Eddy
(c) Charles Stanton
(d) Margaret

2. What did Sutter do?
(a) He was a pioneer.
(b) He rescued people who were injured on the trail.
(c) He established a fort and trading post.
(d) He was a hunter.

3. How did James Reed revive Patty?
(a) He rubbed cold snow on her face.
(b) He performed CPR on her.
(c) He yelled at her and smacked her.
(d) He gave her crumbs he stored in his mitten.

4. Why was Jean Baptiste Trudeau poking through the snow with a stick?
(a) He was trying to find a lost child.
(b) He was hallucinating.
(c) He was trying to find firewood.
(d) He was looking for a forgotten ox.

5. What happened to the food that the rescuers had stashed along the journey?
(a) It rotted.
(b) Wild animals had eaten it.
(c) Nothing. It was all there.
(d) It was stolen by Native Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who possessed the west?

2. Hw many other people died the night Dolan died?

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

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

5. What was the Donner Party running low on?

(see the answer key)

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