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

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

3. Who was the first snowshoer to die?
(a) Mary Ann Graves
(b) William Eddy
(c) Lem Murphy
(d) Charles Stanton

4. What did Mary Ann Graves become?
(a) A writer
(b) A lawyer
(c) A shopkeeper
(d) One of the first teachers in San Jose

5. What did Virginia write about her father's banishment?
(a) She said it was fair.
(b) She only said that he had to go on to California for provisions. D
(c) She wrote that his punishment was very unjust.
(d) She didn't write about it at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the problem with Tommy?

2. How many members of Forlorn Hope survived?

3. Why didn't Virginia join the group that went off for help?

4. How did Margaret and Elizabeth Graves get along?

5. What lured emigrants to California in 1849 in 1850?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How many rescue teams were there, and what did they find?

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

4. Why couldn't all the survivors get rescued at once?

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

6. What did the Miwok Indians do to help them?

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

8. Why didn't the starving people hunt for food?

9. What did they decide to do for food in order to survive?

10. What did the group do when they realize that they couldn't reach a summit?

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