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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 did Louis Keseberg do in California?
(a) He became a law officer.
(b) He started lecturing on the Donner Party experience.
(c) He earned a reputation as a thief.
(d) He ran a hotel and restaurant.

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

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

4. Who led the first rescue party that reached the survivors?
(a) James Reed
(b) Nobody reached them
(c) Charles Stanton
(d) Aquillal Glover

5. Who had given William Eddy the secret gift that he found in his pack?
(a) Virginia
(b) His wife, Eleanor
(c) Charles
(d) Margaret

Short Answer Questions

1. What was life like for the Donner Party survivors in California?

2. What did the Murphy children end out eating?

3. Why didn't the Piutes help the travelers?

4. What did the rescuers tell the survivors about Forlorn Hope?

5. How many members of Forlorn Hope survived?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What tragedy struck once the first group of survivors made it safely to Johnson's Ranch?

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

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

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

6. What was the Reed reunion like?

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

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

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

10. What did William Eddy and William Foster find when they went to rescue their families? Who did they rescue?

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