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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Mary Ann Graves become?
(a) A lawyer
(b) A writer
(c) One of the first teachers in San Jose
(d) A shopkeeper
2. What happened to the people who resorted to cannibalism?
(a) They grew stronger.
(b) They became ill.
(c) They died.
(d) Nothing
3. How did Victoria react to the cannibalism?
(a) She didn't mention it.
(b) She was very matter-of-fact about it.
(c) The idea of it made her nauseous.
(d) She was surprised that anyone would find it abnormal in the circumstances.
4. What kind of relationship did the survivors have?
(a) Most survivors who weren't related didn't keep in touch.
(b) They deliberately rejected each other.
(c) They gathered together annually to commemorate their survival and mourn those who died.
(d) They were more like one big family after the experience.
5. What did the Murphy children end out eating?
(a) Bugs
(b) Hair
(c) A rug
(d) Their book
Short Answer Questions
1. How did the survivors respond when they saw the rescuers?
2. What happened when Mrs. Reed first saw her husband?
3. Why was it a little difficult to read Virginia's letter?
4. Why did Margaret trust Glover?
5. How did Margaret and Elizabeth Graves get along?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did they go about deciding who should be cannibalized?
2. What troubles did they face as they waited out the winter?
3. How did the group members respond when it actually came time to eat one of their comrades?
4. How did Virginia tell her cousin about the personal atrocities that happened on the trail?
5. What tragedy struck once the first group of survivors made it safely to Johnson's Ranch?
6. What did William Eddy and William Foster find when they went to rescue their families? Who did they rescue?
7. How did Virginia deal with the idea of cannibalism?
8. What happened to Louis Keseberg?
9. How did the Donner party story affect emigrants traveling West?
10. How did the members of the Donner Party interact when they reached California?
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