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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Bridger promote the shortcut?
(a) He heard good things about it.
(b) He had been on it himself and thought it was a wise plan.
(c) He was desperate for the business it would bring as people passed by his trading post.
(d) He believed in Hastings.

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

3. What West Hastings' occupation?
(a) Doctor
(b) Lawyer
(c) Shopkeeper
(d) Accountant

4. What did the men do to the wagon wheels after crossing the Platte?
(a) They completely dried them out.
(b) They sanded them down.
(c) They re-greased and re-set them.
(d) They added metal to them.

5. Why did they decide to take the cutoff?
(a) They had a group vote, but they didn't allow the women to vote.
(b) Hastings joined them so they had a guide.
(c) They didn't like the people going the other route.
(d) It was what they planned all along.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many miles would the cutoff save them?

2. How many states were in the Union in the spring of 1846?

3. What did the surface of the desert consist of?

4. How many times had George Donner emigrated?

5. How did the Murphy clan and the Reeds and Donners get along?

(see the answer key)

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