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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. Patty is the following items from everyone except for:

2. Who is the unofficial untarnished hero of the Donner Party?

3. How many people left with the first rescue team?

4. When did Mary Murphy get married?

5. How did Virginia described the occasion where she nearly died?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did they go about deciding who should be cannibalized?

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

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

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

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

6. What was the Reed reunion like?

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

8. What happened to Mary Murphy?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the journey to Independence, Missouri go, and what held them up? How did they feel about reaching the city?

Essay Topic 2

What obstacles did the rescue parties have to overcome to save the members of the Donner Party?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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