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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 did Virginia feel about losing the Pioneer Palace Car?
(a) She thought it was practical.
(b) It made her angry.
(c) She was devastated.
(d) It didn't seem to bother her much.

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

3. What is cannibalism?
(a) When you are overly aggressive
(b) When you only eat soup
(c) A type of disease that infects children
(d) The eating of human flesh

4. When did Mary Murphy get married?
(a) Nine months after her rescue
(b) Within a week of her rescue
(c) Within a year of her rescue
(d) Within a month of her rescue

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Margaret and Elizabeth Graves get along?

2. What did Virginia write about Lansford Hastings?

3. What did the survivors do with the buckskin strings from the rescue party's snowshoes?

4. What was the weather like as the snowshoers traveled?

5. What did the Murphy children end out eating?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Reed reunion like?

2. How did Virginia tell her cousin about the personal atrocities that happened on the trail?

3. What happened to Louis Keseberg?

4. How did Virginia inadvertently help the world hear about what happened to the Donner Party?

5. Why didn't Tamsen Donner allow herself to be rescued for a second time?

6. How did the Donner party story affect emigrants traveling West?

7. How did they go about deciding who should be cannibalized?

8. What happened to the members of the Reed family?

9. Why didn't the Donner families camp with the others?

10. How did the members of the Donner Party interact when they reached California?

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