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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the survivors do with the buckskin strings from the rescue party's snowshoes?
(a) They used them to tie up their remaining belongings.
(b) They stole them and ate them.
(c) They used them to tie the tent flap together so they wouldn't be cold any longer.
(d) They held them reverently.

2. How did Margaret and Elizabeth Graves get along?
(a) They hated each other.
(b) They tolerated each other.
(c) They ignored each other.
(d) They were best friends.

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

4. What happened to George Donner's hand?
(a) It was severely burned.
(b) He had a cut that was becoming infected.
(c) It was chopped off.
(d) He developed frostbite.

5. What job did John and Edward have?
(a) They had to bury the dead.
(b) They took care of the animals.
(c) They cleaned the houses.
(d) They hunted.

6. 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 had to scrape from the dregs of society since they lost all their belongings.
(d) They created good lives for themselves.

7. How many rescue parties left Sutters Fort?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 3

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

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

10. What kind of relationship did the survivors have?
(a) They were more like one big family after the experience.
(b) They deliberately rejected each other.
(c) Most survivors who weren't related didn't keep in touch.
(d) They gathered together annually to commemorate their survival and mourn those who died.

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

12. 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 silver
(d) The discovery of gold

13. How did the native Americans help the snow shoers?
(a) They carried them back to the camp.
(b) They fed them pine nuts and acorn bread.
(c) They went and got help for them.
(d) They gave them maps to California.

14. Who did Foster want to kill?
(a) Patrick Dolan
(b) Lem Murphy
(c) Their Native American guides.
(d) William Eddy

15. What did Virginia write about Lansford Hastings?
(a) She said he took good care of them.
(b) Very little
(c) She said that she finally met him.
(d) Sh blamed him for their experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. How close were the dwellings to each other?

2. How did Victoria react to the cannibalism?

3. What did William Eddy find in his pack?

4. What happened when Mrs. Reed first saw her husband?

5. How many members of Forlorn Hope survived?

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