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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How with the group feeling by the time they reached the shore of the Great Salt Lake?
(a) Euphoric
(b) Tired but happy
(c) Worn-out and discouraged
(d) Angry

2. Where did the children sleep?
(a) On Grandma's bed
(b) In a second story loft
(c) Under the wagon
(d) Around the campfire

3. How close were the travelers to the summit when they decided to rest and got snowed in?
(a) 20 miles
(b) 50 miles
(c) Three miles
(d) 1/4 mile

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

5. What was Reed going on to do?
(a) He was racing ahead to bring back help.
(b) Negotiate with the Indians
(c) Get food for the travelers
(d) Find Hastings

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Reed want out west?

2. Why did they decide to take the cutoff?

3. How far into the established route did Hastings Cutoff appear?

4. What did the first group find that pioneers had left the winter before?

5. Why did the travelers journey south after the desert?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Clyman talk to Reed about?

2. Why did some of the people in Springfield question James Reed's ideas?

3. How did the Reed wagons do on the journey?

4. What did the note that Hastings left tell the travelers? Was his statement valid?

5. How did Virginia feel about her traveling clothes?

6. Why did each family have three wagons?

7. How did the Native American treat William Eddy?

8. What did the families do in the evenings?

9. What happened with Edward Breen?

10. What was "The Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California" like?

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