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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Patrick Breen contribute to the fires at night?

2. How close were the travelers to the summit when they decided to rest and got snowed in?

3. What did Reed want out west?

4. What did Stanton recommend that the group do before crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains?

5. What was Sutter's fort like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Reed wagons do on the journey?

2. Why did Virginia's father choose to take his family to California?

3. How did the Native American treat William Eddy?

4. What happened to James Reed after he killed Snyder?

5. Why did some of the people in Springfield question James Reed's ideas?

6. What happened to the group as they reached near the summit of Sierra Nevada?

7. How did Virginia feel about her traveling clothes?

8. What would they have to do in order to cross a river?

9. What did Clyman talk to Reed about?

10. What did James Reed say that persuaded the man to take Hastings' Cutoff?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happened at the campfire that led to Patrick Dolan's death?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the political situation in the United States when the Reeds decided to go to California. Where did the United States officially end and who had control of California?

Essay Topic 3

Several people in the party died between the Great Salt Lake Desert and the Sierra Nevada. Name some of these people and explain how they died and how the group dealt with their deaths.

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