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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Captains try to arrange an agreement for the Nez Perce to
(a) Give up a portion of their horses
(b) Pay more respect to Twisted Hair
(c) Trade their horses with the Blackfoot
(d) Move to the eastern side of the Continental Divide

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

3. Lewis imagined a situation of trade which would allow
(a) The Indians to remain on their lands
(b) Indians to travel freely to Washington
(c) Forts to house Americans and Indians
(d) Americans to be hosted by tribal leaders

4. Under Bates' watch, the St. Louis area was having many struggles over
(a) Racism
(b) Governance
(c) Land titles
(d) Voting disputes

5. By this time, Jefferson has retired to Monticello, and the new president is
(a) Jackson
(b) Lincoln
(c) Truman
(d) Madison

6. Jefferson felt that the Indians would give over their land in exchange for
(a) Payment of their mounting debts to America
(b) Peace and sovereignty
(c) Liquor and tobacco
(d) Guns and ammunition

7. Lewis and his small group travel to the headwaters of the Marias in order to
(a) Locate the stash of supplies they left earlier
(b) Fish for trout
(c) Find out if the Missouri River drains into Louisiana Purchase territory
(d) Find out if there is any end to the Missouri River before Canada

8. While on the Columbia, the primary interest of the group was to
(a) Eat, drink and dance
(b) Trade for otter skins
(c) Reach the Pacific Ocean
(d) Stay dry and warm

9. At 33-years-old, Lewis had become
(a) A recluse
(b) A major celebrity
(c) A gentleman farmer
(d) A loyal family member

10. Realizing they had to have a guide through the mountains, the party
(a) Turned north looking for Nez Perce
(b) Turned back and waited
(c) Waited for Cut Nose's guides
(d) Hired a Blackfoot boy

11. Government officials began to pester Lewis over
(a) The slowness in getting his manuscripts published
(b) The amount of the drafts presented for payment
(c) The unnecessary supplies he had purchased
(d) The personal time he had charged for

12. Lewis proposed that all the furs in the northwest could be
(a) Wiped out by the French soon
(b) Shipped to China from the Pacific coast
(c) Worthless in ten years
(d) Owned by Britain during the next year

13. Meriwether Lewis may have misused public funds by
(a) Funding his own commercial venture with them
(b) Drinking and carousing
(c) Buying expensive property for government agencies
(d) Purchasing opium and alcohol

14. When he returned to St. Louis, Lewis wrote an extensive paper on
(a) Trade with the Indians
(b) Specific song birds of the west
(c) Love and courtship
(d) Insects and reptiles in the west

15. Bates, who had stood in for Lewis as governor, finally has
(a) A heart attack and is forced to resign
(b) A public scene and breaks his friendship with Lewis
(c) Contacted Clark with a request for solutions
(d) Made the decision to resign his post

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis and Clark break the expedition up in groups to

2. By the time Lewis reaches Grinder's Inn, he seems

3. Clark was appointed as brigadier general of militia, as well as

4. In his role as governor of the Louisiana territory, Lewis

5. At The Dalles, the expedition paid dearly for four horses with

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