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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chief of Scouts- Chapter 27, 28 and 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color was Jim Bridger's horse that he mounted to ride off to save Joseph Meek?
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

2. When Parkman's story and words were referred to in Chapter 14, he mentioned that the water was alive with dogs, horses, and what?
(a) Bears.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Moose.
(d) Indians.

3. Pierre's Hole was home to what tribe that is described as the most implacable of tribes?
(a) Blackfeet.
(b) Crow.
(c) Sioux.
(d) Cheyenne.

4. What trapper rule concerning guns was similar to the rule of the Indian camps?
(a) No man should keep more than one gun.
(b) No man should keep a gun to just himself.
(c) No man should sleep with his gun empty.
(d) No man should fire a gun within the camp.

5. Some of the older trappers had advantages over Jim. Who was a better businessman than Jim?
(a) Major Henry.
(b) Bill Sublette.
(c) Hugh Glass.
(d) Kit Carson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the trappers rendezvous to be held in Pierre's Hole?

2. What did Jim Bridger find on the side of a trail that had Indian signs marked on them?

3. In the same year that Jim Bridger was born, Lewis and Clark set out up what river?

4. When the Blackfeet attacked the Americans in Chapter 6, how many horses did they take?

5. At what time did Bridger hear the children playing on the parade ground yelling the word, "Indian"?

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