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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 occurred the day after the natural event that unnerved white settlers?
(a) Aftershocks.
(b) A rain storm.
(c) A snow storm.
(d) An eerie calm in the area.

2. Why did John do something different at the half-way point of the mountain?
(a) He wanted to prepare for future climbs.
(b) He had run out of water.
(c) He wanted to let his friend know where he was on the climb.
(d) He couldn't move up or down.

3. What was the steamboat carrying in Chapter 19?
(a) Silks.
(b) Lumber.
(c) Pineapples.
(d) Mail.

4. The Yosemite indigenous believed that _____________ caused the natural event that was discussed in Chapter 12.
(a) White settlers.
(b) Another tribe's medicine man.
(c) The god of the mountains.
(d) Angry spirits.

5. What did John do when he reached the half-way point of the mountain?
(a) He set up a semi-permanent camp.
(b) He went back down the mountain.
(c) He stopped.
(d) He sent up a flare.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was with John and his friend as they approached the mountain in Chapter 13?

2. What is different about the second version of events in Chapter 19?

3. What could John NOT see from the mountain, according to Chapter 13?

4. Whose version of events is in the second part of Chapter 19?

5. What did John and his friends find on the lake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice did John give to people experiencing storms?

2. How did John feel about the view at Tenaya Canyon? How do you know?

3. Describe John's first two encounters with rattlesnakes.

4. What difficulties did John face on a survey in the wilderness with Captain A. F. Rodgers?

5. How did the artists react when John returned from his climb of Mount Ritter? Why?

6. What was the role of rattlesnakes in California, according to Chapter 11?

7. Describe John's third encounter with a rattlesnake. How did this change his treatment of them?

8. How is the account in Chapter 15 different from other accounts of John's adventures?

9. How does the account of John's climb up Mount Shasta by Augustus Frederick Rodgers differ from John's account?

10. What happened on John's difficult climb up Mount Shasta?

(see the answer keys)

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