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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many miles would the cutoff save them?
(a) 750
(b) 30
(c) 100
(d) 400

2. What is caching, according to the emigrants?
(a) Storing food they found on the trail
(b) Dumping items out of the wagon
(c) Putting food aside in rations
(d) Removing furniture and burying it to prevent theft

3. How did they help Jimmy Reed travel?
(a) They carried him.
(b) They encouraged him by telling him that every step he took was getting closer to Papa.
(c) They put him on a sled.
(d) They threatened him.

4. How did people learn about the story of the Donner Party?
(a) Telephone
(b) From newspapers
(c) Television
(d) Radio

5. How many members of the Donner Party committed suicide?
(a) 22
(b) 4
(c) 12
(d)

Short Answer Questions

1. What instinctive rule comes into play regarding cannibalism?

2. What did the travelers do before they headed across the desert?

3. What did the interior of the wagon remind Virginia of?

4. Where was the family going to move to?

5. What did the travelers encounter as they climbed the Sierra Nevada?

(see the answer key)

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