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

2. How did Patrick Dolan die?
(a) He was killed.
(b) He died from infection.
(c) He hallucinated and broke away from the fire then died of cold and starvation.
(d) He ate poisoned meat.

3. What happened to George Donner's hand?
(a) It was chopped off.
(b) He had a cut that was becoming infected.
(c) He developed frostbite.
(d) It was severely burned.

4. Why did they consider drawing lots?
(a) To see who would go without dinner
(b) To see who would go ahead alone to find help
(c) To see who should die so the others could live
(d) To see who would be in charge of tending the fire throughout the night

5. How many people left with the first rescue team?
(a) 24
(b) 7
(c) 80
(d) 42

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the native Americans help the snow shoers?

2. Who did Foster want to kill?

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

4. What happened to John Breen in California?

5. How did James Reed revive Patty?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did William Eddy react to the plan that Williams Foster had- to kill the Indians?

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

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

6. What happened to Mary Murphy?

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

8. What was the Reed reunion like?

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

10. What happened to Louis Keseberg?

(see the answer keys)

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