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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the terrain so difficult in this chapter?
(a) Hail storms
(b) Muddy conditions
(c) Prickly pears and rocks
(d) Strong winds

2. What do the Teton and Yankton Sioux say they will kill if they stand in their way?
(a) White men
(b) Children
(c) Grizzly bears
(d) Women

3. What tribe of Indians does Clarke send La Liberte to talk to?
(a) Otos
(b) Pawnees
(c) Haha
(d) Yoopees

4. What kind of animal does the Corps catch alive in this chapter?
(a) Beaver
(b) Coyote
(c) Grizzly bear
(d) Wolf

5. Which of the following people is not punished in this chapter?
(a) Hugh Hall
(b) William Warner
(c) John Collins
(d) James Horace

6. What two animals does Valle say live in the Black Mountains?
(a) Grizzy bears and goats
(b) Coyote and wolves
(c) Frogs and toads
(d) Lions and tigers

7. What does Toussaint trade?
(a) Fur
(b) Alcohol
(c) Plastics
(d) Tobacco

8. What covers the ground and makes their progress difficult in this chapter?
(a) Prickly pears
(b) Flint
(c) Dead buffalo
(d) Glass

9. What was Blackbird killed by?
(a) Cancer
(b) A bullet wound
(c) Small pox
(d) A knife wound

10. What does the Corps find on the shore of the Poncha River?
(a) An empty village
(b) Buffalo carcasses
(c) Starving people
(d) Guns

11. Who does the Corps send documentation and specimens to?
(a) Their families
(b) The President
(c) The Secretary of State
(d) Scientists

12. What keeps the mosquitoes away in this chapter?
(a) Smoke
(b) Burning oid
(c) Bad body odour
(d) The breeze

13. Who does the Corps hire as an interpreter in this chapter?
(a) Roger Tomlinson
(b) Toussaint Charbonneau
(c) Jack Keats
(d) Joseph Gravelines

14. What uses the mound as a refuge?
(a) Rats
(b) Deer
(c) Coyote
(d) Birds

15. What is the name of the experienced waterman within the Corps?
(a) Horace
(b) Captain Lewis
(c) Reinhard
(d) Cruzatte

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Meriwether Lewis in this chapter?

2. What do the people who don't take part in the majority of the celebration do on Christmas Day?

3. What is the name of the French village the party reaches in this chapter?

4. What kind of medicine does Lewis give Sacagawea in this chapter?

5. Who is the Great Father the captains talk about?

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