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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to the beginning of the journey, Jefferson issues to Lewis
(a) Marching orders for the expedition
(b) An unprecedented letter of credit
(c) A warning to spend judiciously
(d) A medal for courage and valor

2. Meriwether Lewis has a penchant for
(a) Picking tobacco
(b) Poker
(c) Rambling
(d) Horse grooming

3. Proceeding downstream on wet clay, the party found the ground to be extremely
(a) Slippery
(b) Soft
(c) Sticky
(d) Smelly

4. Lewis planned ahead for meetings with Native Americans by bringing
(a) Meat and vegetables
(b) Wool blankets
(c) Bales of gifts
(d) Silk jackets

5. When Sacagawea became ill, Lewis treated her with
(a) Quinine water
(b) Alcohol and bleeding
(c) Herbal teas and tinctures
(d) Poultices and sulphur water

6. Rather than ascend the Yellowstone, the expedition instead
(a) Cut over to the Columbia
(b) Continued up the Missouri
(c) Partied at te rivers' junction
(d) Stayed on the Marias

7. What was Jefferson's suggestion to Napoleon regarding New Orleans?
(a) Sign the area over to the British to arouse enmity
(b) Go to war with Spain to establish possesssion
(c) Cede the area to Spain in order to balance things
(d) Cede the area to the U.S. to prevent a war between allies

8. Lewis thought that buffalo hair might produce
(a) Soft baby blankets
(b) A fine wool
(c) Packing material
(d) Good stuffing for pillows

9. Wild game animals were not afraid of the men, perhaps because
(a) They talked gently to them
(b) They smelled like other naimals
(c) They had never seen one before
(d) They posed no threat

10. Once they were on the Mississippi, Lewis and Clark decided to
(a) Study the design of Fulton's steamboat
(b) Make a side trip to Santa Fe
(c) Explore Missouri country
(d) Double the size of their group

11. On their journey over the Bitterroots, Lewis and his men found
(a) Signs of spring
(b) A butchered horse left for them by Clark
(c) A few buffalo
(d) A lagoon full of fish

12. In addition to the enlisted men, the group included York, who was
(a) An expert in firearms
(b) William Clark's long-time slave
(c) An expert hunter and trapper
(d) A cartographer and explorer

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Meriwether Lewis and Thomas Jefferson's families have this in common.

2. Lewis tells Jefferson that the Snake Indians have large quantities of

3. Among his peers, Lewis is considered

4. Winter at Fort Mandan was

5. Clark noted that he was concerned that the expedition had insufficient

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