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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Virginia spend her days after leaving Missouri?
(a) Minding the little ones
(b) Steering the wagons
(c) Reading to her grandmother
(d) On her pony

2. Where did the children sleep?
(a) Under the wagon
(b) Around the campfire
(c) In a second story loft
(d) On Grandma's bed

3. What book did Reed and Donner use for guidance?
(a) The Oregon Trail
(b) Go West, Young Man - Memoirs of Daniel Boone
(c) The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California
(d) California or Bust

4. How many states were in the Union in the spring of 1846?
(a) 20
(b) 52
(c) 13
(d) 28

5. What did the interior of the wagon remind Virginia of?
(a) A garbage heap
(b) Organized chaos
(c) A living room
(d) A stuffed closet

Short Answer Questions

1. What did James Clyman tell the travelers?

2. Where was James Reed from originally?

3. Independence, Missouri known for all of these except what?

4. What was the first bit of trouble the Donner Party encountered?

5. Where was the family going to move to?

(see the answer key)

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