2. What happened to the teenager who ate a lot of food after surviving?
(a) He wrote about his amazing meal in his journal.
(b) He died in agony because his body could not digest it.
(c) He threw it all back up.
(d) They all laughed in happiness.

3. What lured emigrants to California in 1849 in 1850?
(a) They wanted to meet the members of the Donner Party.
(b) The new railroad
(c) The discovery of gold
(d) The discovery of silver

4. Who did Mrs. Murphy say they ought to eat?
(a) Milt
(b) Towser
(c) Charles
(d) No-one

5. What was Louis Keseberg notorious for?
(a) Possibly killing Tamsen Donner
(b) Starting fights
(c) Robbing the others
(d) Killing Charles Stanton

6. How did people learn about the story of the Donner Party?
(a) Telephone
(b) From newspapers
(c) Television
(d) Radio

7. Why did they consider drawing lots?
(a) To see who would be in charge of tending the fire throughout the night
(b) To see who should die so the others could live
(c) To see who would go ahead alone to find help
(d) To see who would go without dinner

8. What was life like for the Donner Party survivors in California?
(a) They instantly achieved great fame.
(b) They were shunned for their cannibalism.
(c) They created good lives for themselves.
(d) They had to scrape from the dregs of society since they lost all their belongings.

9. Why didn't Virginia join the group that went off for help?
(a) She was too young.
(b) They needed her to babysit the little ones.
(c) She wasn't strong enough.
(d) She became ill.

10. Where did one woman think the rescuers came from?
(a) Oregon
(b) Illinois
(c) Hell
(d) Heaven

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

12. Patty is the following items from everyone except for:
(a) A lock of her grandmother's hair
(b) A hairbrush
(c) A small wooden doll
(d) A glass salt shaker

13. How did they stay warm at night?
(a) They built a huge fire.
(b) They huddled together under a blanket near the fire.
(c) They layered their clothing.
(d) They drank whiskey.

14. Why didn't the Piutes help the travelers?
(a) They were afraid of white men.
(b) They didn't know how to help them.
(c) It was against their religion.
(d) They didn't know they were there.

15. How did Patrick Dolan die?
(a) He ate poisoned meat.
(b) He hallucinated and broke away from the fire then died of cold and starvation.
(c) He died from infection.
(d) He was killed.