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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lewis and Clark secretly planned to send three men back to St. Louis to deliver
(a) Indian trinkets
(b) Credit slips
(c) Reports
(d) Artifacts

2. Lewis was instructed by Sacagawea that, in Shoshone, "tab-ba-bone" meant
(a) Let us trade
(b) We are hungry
(c) White man
(d) We want peace

3. Andre Michaux was selected to lead an expedition west until Jefferson discovered that
(a) Michaux was under educated
(b) Michaux was incapable of understanding his peers
(c) Michaux was an agent of the French government
(d) Michaux's interests lay in his own personal wealth

4. Plantation owners constantly seek additional land because
(a) They want to conquer the British
(b) They wear out the soil with tobacco planting
(c) They want more power over the territory
(d) They wish to be free and independent

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Among his peers, Lewis is considered

2. The difference between a canoe and a pirogue is that

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

4. Lewis felt that meeting the Snake Indians could determine

5. Lewis and Clark wanted Indian chiefs to go to Washington so they could

Short Essay Questions

1. The trip through the Bitterroot Mountains is a particularly gruesome time or the expedition. Starvation, rough terrain, cold and illness forces the men to take desperate measures. What were they and why didn't the expedition turn back?

2. Why did it take so long for Lewis' keelboat to be built?

3. What happened to Lewis' beloved iron-frame boat?

4. Did Jefferson see something special in Meriwether Lewis?

5. What in Lewis' childhood may have contributed to his later accomplishments?

6. What may have convinced Lewis and Clark that they needed to double their crew?

7. How did the expedition manage to drag its boats over land?

8. Why was progress down the Ohio River so abominably slow?

9. Why was it fortuitous that the group encountered the Nez Perce Indians?

10. Explain Lewis' realization when he was threatened by buffalo bulls, a bear and wolverines.

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