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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 Looking for the Shoshones July 15 - August 12, 1805.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lewis and Clark wanted Indian chiefs to go to Washington so they could
(a) See how wealthy white men lived in the states
(b) Display themselves to Congress
(c) Meet their new father
(d) Express their displeasure with the white man

2. Meriwether Lewis, on the journey down the Ohio, contracts
(a) Influenza from bad water
(b) Bilious fever from damp nights
(c) Malaria from mosquitoes
(d) Dysentary from spoiled food

3. Captain Clark's commission named him only as a
(a) Lieutenant
(b) Corporal
(c) Major
(d) Private

4. Lewis named many of the new rivers he found after
(a) Jefferson's ancestors
(b) Women he had known
(c) Government officials and politicians
(d) Clark's family members

5. Clark's feet sufferred from wounds made by
(a) Berry thorns
(b) Prickly pears
(c) River rocks
(d) Sharp rocks

Short Answer Questions

1. The voyage down the Ohio River starts out slowly because of the party's

2. Meriwether Lewis has a penchant for

3. One of the unique "new" creatures found by Clark is the

4. The strange gunshot-type noise that came regularly from the northwest

5. Meriwether Lewis named Marias River after

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