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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) It made her angry.
(b) She thought it was practical.
(c) It didn't seem to bother her much.
(d) She was devastated.

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

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

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

5. How close were the dwellings to each other?
(a) They deliberately built their dwellings a fair distance apart from each other.
(b) They had room enough for campfires between the buildings.
(c) They attached their dwellings to each other.
(d) They put several miles between buildings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did John and Edward have?

2. How did the survivors respond when they saw the rescuers?

3. How did James Reed revive Patty?

4. What happened to the Breen's dog, Towser?

5. When did Mary Murphy get married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was happening to the group morale?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did Virginia deal with the idea of cannibalism?

9. What happened to Louis Keseberg?

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

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