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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. What did Mary Ann Graves become?

2. What happened to the dogs that were traveling with the group?

3. How did the rescue party find the survivors?

4. What kind of relationship did the survivors have?

5. How did Margaret and Elizabeth Graves get along?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Louis Keseberg?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was the Reed reunion like?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe in detail why James Reed was banished and what the team promised to his family. Then comment on how they treated the family in actuality.

Essay Topic 2

What were the troubles that the members of the wagon train faced as they crossed the Great Salt Lake Desert? How did it affect the humans, and how did it affect the animals? What did it do for group morale?

Essay Topic 3

Describe what the rescuers found when they came across the survivors. What condition were the people in? Use specifics.

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