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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lewis felt that within ten years, Americans would
(a) Be moving to Canada to avoid taxes
(b) Be the biggest fur traders on earth
(c) Easily make the journey across the continent
(d) Settle the west coast

2. Lewis' underlying goal at this point is for America to
(a) Dominate the fur trade throughout the West
(b) Understand the ways of the various Indian tribes
(c) Finally oust Spain and France from the fur trade
(d) Know the wildlife that existed beyond the Mississippi

3. By the time Lewis reaches Grinder's Inn, he seems
(a) Drunken and disorderly
(b) Irrational and deranged
(c) To be feeling much better
(d) Confident and rested

4. Speculation about the eight-month period include the possibility that
(a) Lewis was in a diabetic coma
(b) Lewis was tired of all the attention
(c) Lewis suffered from malaria
(d) Lewis was having an affair

5. Lewis' first attempt at suicide was
(a) A false alarm
(b) Unsuccessful
(c) A call for help
(d) A misfire

6. Lewis and Clark and Clark's wife planned to share a house in
(a) Philadelphia
(b) St. Louis
(c) Virginia
(d) Louisville

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

8. Lewis caught an illness from
(a) Jefferson's butler
(b) Martha Randolph
(c) His son-in-law
(d) Captain Clark

9. Lewis' greatest mistake may have been
(a) Not learning to spell
(b) Leaving Jefferson's home
(c) His broken friendship with Secretary Bates
(d) His failure to get his journals published

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

11. Unlike the coastal Chinook Indians, the Walla-Walla Indians prove to be
(a) Independent and healthy
(b) Trustworthy and kind
(c) Taller and meaner
(d) Ready to assimilate

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

13. Lewis recommended compensation to all of the members of his party, with the exception of
(a) Newman
(b) Charbonneau
(c) York
(d) Shields

14. Complicating Lewis' depression, perhaps, was
(a) The side effects of curatives
(b) The loss of his father
(c) His ongoing friendship with Clark
(d) His regret over not staying out west

15. On his journey to Washington, Lewis wrote to Madison and expressed that he was
(a) Enjoying being governor of Louisiana Territory
(b) Confident his drafts would be approved
(c) Afraid his illness might overtake him soon
(d) Bringing duplicates of his journals

Short Answer Questions

1. The Captains decided to ride out some very dangerous rapids, which resulted in

2. Lewis proposed that all the furs in the northwest could be

3. When he returned to St. Louis, Lewis wrote an extensive paper on

4. The author suspects that Meriwether Lewis was

5. During Clark's journey to Yellowstone,

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