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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when Mrs. Reed first saw her husband?
(a) She started to run to meet him, but kept falling.
(b) She dropped to her knees in the snow.
(c) She fainted.
(d) She jumped into his arms.

2. How many rescue parties left Sutters Fort?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 6
(d) 5

3. Who went off to find help nine days before Christmas?
(a) Virginia Reed
(b) Virginia's mother
(c) James Reed
(d) The snowshoers

4. Who was the unofficial leader of the snowshoers?
(a) James Reed
(b) William Eddy
(c) Charles Stanton
(d) Margaret

5. What happened to George Donner's hand?
(a) It was severely burned.
(b) It was chopped off.
(c) He had a cut that was becoming infected.
(d) He developed frostbite.

6. What kind of soup did they eat daily?
(a) Stone soup
(b) Bear
(c) Venison
(d) Ox hide

7. Who led the first rescue party that reached the survivors?
(a) James Reed
(b) Nobody reached them
(c) Charles Stanton
(d) Aquillal Glover

8. Who was the first snowshoer to die?
(a) Charles Stanton
(b) Mary Ann Graves
(c) Lem Murphy
(d) William Eddy

9. Who is the unofficial untarnished hero of the Donner Party?
(a) Patrick Dolan
(b) Charles Stanton
(c) James Reed
(d) William Eddy

10. Why did they consider drawing lots?
(a) To see who would go without dinner
(b) To see who would be in charge of tending the fire throughout the night
(c) To see who should die so the others could live
(d) To see who would go ahead alone to find help

11. What happened to John Breen in California?
(a) He became a mountain guide.
(b) He overate and died.
(c) He became a law maker.
(d) He made a fortune finding gold.

12. Who did Mrs. Murphy say they ought to eat?
(a) No-one
(b) Milt
(c) Towser
(d) Charles

13. How many members of Forlorn Hope survived?
(a) 7
(b) 4
(c)
(d) 1

14. What was the problem with Tommy?
(a) He wouldn't stop coughing.
(b) His leg wound was infected.
(c) He couldn't breathe right.
(d) He couldn't walk through the deep snow, and they couldn't carry him.

15. What did the Murphy children end out eating?
(a) A rug
(b) Hair
(c) Bugs
(d) Their book

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Breen's dog, Towser?

2. What job did John and Edward have?

3. How did they stay warm at night?

4. What instinctive rule comes into play regarding cannibalism?

5. What happened to the people who resorted to cannibalism?

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