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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 Fort Clatsop December 8, 1805 - March 23, 1806.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Shoshones removed their moccasins to smoke with Lewis, indicating
(a) Their humility
(b) Their interest in his mocassins
(c) Their sincerity in friendship
(d) Their respect for a clean blanket

2. The Shoshones were intimidated by other tribes because they
(a) Had no guns
(b) Lived in an area of sparse game
(c) Had been ravaged by the Blackfeet
(d) Were too weak with hunger to fight

3. Lewis learns from Cameahwait that the Nez Perce Indians
(a) Were well educated
(b) Traveled north every year to hunt
(c) Lived west of the mountains
(d) Fished the Columbia

4. When the funds were appropriate from Congress for the expedition, Jefferson undertook to
(a) Have Lewis come to live with him in the presidential house
(b) Have Lewis fully educated by experts in many fields
(c) Show Lewis how to calculate latitude and longitude
(d) Gather wagons and guns for Lewis

5. Lewis puts into place a number of rules to keep order at the fort, the primary one being that
(a) All outsiders must leave and the fort locked at sunset
(b) No one was to carry a gun around the Indians
(c) There were to be no Indians within the compound
(d) No drinking was allowed within the fort

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to the beginning of the journey, Jefferson issues to Lewis

2. Lewis was under the assumption that the Shoshones would want to trade horses for

3. Settling at the coastal fort, the men start a

4. For Lewis' men, life at Fort Clatsop in the winter was

5. At this point in their journey, wild game is

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