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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suffers from a bad cold in this chapter?

2. What does Clark make the moccasins from?

3. What threatens to break the canoes?

4. What does the Corps name the eastern fork?

5. What animal skin do the Indians offer to trade with the Corps?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the captains devise to make their journey across the mountain easier?

2. How do the Indians greet the party in Chapter 14?

3. Why does Clark name the sandstone structure Pompy's Tower?

4. How do the men spend their time at Fort Clapsop?

5. What problems do the Wahclellahs Indians cause the party in Chapter 19?

6. How do the captains divide the party on July the 1st in Chapter 22?

7. How does Sacagawea surprise Lewis in Chapter 13?

8. Describe the problems the party has have with Indians in Chapter 22.

9. What does Clark tell the Pawnee and Teton tribes in Chapter 24?

10. What do the captains name the three forks of the Missouri River?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the buffalo symbolize in American culture? How does the buffalo symbolize different things to the American Indians than it does to the American whites?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the animals the Corps encounters in the book and examine it in terms of the following:

1) Habitat

2) Diet

3) Survival skills

Essay Topic 3

Examine the punishment and discipline used in the book to keep the Corps in order.

1) Why was so important to keep the Corps disciplined?

2) In what way do Lewis and Clark set a good a example for the men?

3) Why are none of the punished men asked to leave the Corps?

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