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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 special meal did the Reed children have for Christmas?
(a) Fresh bones to gnaw on
(b) Beans, rice, and dried apple slices
(c) Bear meat and beans
(d) Venison stew

2. Why didn't Virginia join the group that went off for help?
(a) She became ill.
(b) She wasn't strong enough.
(c) They needed her to babysit the little ones.
(d) She was too young.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Virginia write about Lansford Hastings?

2. What kind of soup did they eat daily?

3. Why did Margaret trust Glover?

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

5. How did people learn about the story of the Donner Party?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How many people were stuck camping near the lake, and how many people went off to find help nine days before Christmas?

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

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

5. What was the Reed reunion like?

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

7. What happened to Louis Keseberg?

8. What happened to Mary Murphy?

9. What was happening to the group morale?

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

(see the answer keys)

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