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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Meriwether Lewis moved to Philadelphia with the intention of
(a) Being alone for a while
(b) Getting away from Jefferson
(c) Getting his materials published
(d) Finding a wife and companion

4. Jefferson did not send a Navy vessel to retrieve the expedition because
(a) He wanted them to explore as they returned
(b) He felt it was too expensive
(c) There were none available
(d) The Navy refused

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

6. Lewis found it difficult, at the end, to
(a) Leave his loyal servants
(b) Say goodbye to Pernier
(c) To recall all he had done
(d) Make his body die

7. Lewis described the Siouxs' ruling passion as
(a) The urge to battle
(b) The love of gain
(c) The love of trade
(d) The buffalo hunt

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

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

10. Opening the cache let in 1805, Lewis found that
(a) His written documents were wet
(b) His maps and instruments were gone
(c) The food was missing
(d) The plant specimens were ruined

11. Jefferson made Lewis a member of
(a) The Audobon Society
(b) The Harvard Botany Society
(c) The John Birch Society
(d) The American Philosophical Society

12. Lewis wrongly let the Blackfoot warriors know that
(a) His men had killed many buffalo
(b) His horses numbered in the hundreds
(c) Their enemies had organized an alliance with America
(d) He had guns and liquor back at camp

13. Lewis left his estate to
(a) His half-brother
(b) William Clark
(c) Thomas Jefferson
(d) His mother

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

15. The primary industry in St. Louis is associated with
(a) Manufacture of weapons
(b) Production of trinkets for Indian trade
(c) Boating goods up the Missouri
(d) The production of wheat

Short Answer Questions

1. Meriwether Lewis may have misused public funds by

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

3. The Americans astonished the Indians by

4. As they travel toward St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis feels that

5. Two of the group stayed behind with the Mandans. They were

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