DDP - Chapter 5

What is Lieutenant Clyman's major accomplishment is the field of exploration and discovery?

• First to walk on the moon

• He went to Jupiter (where boys get stupider)

• First to circumnavigate the Great Salt Lake

• He discovered Canada

What is a good reason not to trust Landsford Hastings' shortcut?

• He was a blind guy.

• He was always lost.

• He was a lawyer, not an explorer.

• Hastings like to play jokes that got people lost.

Why does Reed ignore Clyman's warnings about taking Hastings' shortcut?

• He is in a hurry to get to California, and he and his family are tired of the wagon trip.

• He thinks Clyman is a fool.

• Hastings' is the world's leading explorer, and he knows he knows best.

• We may never know.

Why does Clyman call Hastings' Cutoff, "the shortcut to death?"

• While it is a shortcut, it goes through dangerous territory that Clyman doubts the group can survive with kids and wagons.

• He is jealous of how great the shortcut is.

• He plans to hide along the route and kill the travelers.

• He is an AC DC fan.

At one point, it is obvious that James Reed doesn't know which direction is east. Why should that worry his family?

• It will be a question on the test.

• It will get him fired.

• He is in charge of taking them West, and if he doesn't know his directions, he could get them lost.

• He is going to make the journey faster, and they will miss family time.

Why do you think that there are no Sioux battle records from that time in history?

• Their library burned down and they lost all the records.

• They were lost in the move.

• They didn't keep normal records, and most of them were killed and couldn't tell the history.

• Nobody knows.

Who is more scared of the other, Indians or the Reeds?

• The Reeds

• Indians

• Clyman

• Neither

Why do the people carve their names in Independence Rock?

• They are bored.

• So they can practice their handwriting.

• To have some record that they passed through as travelers.

• Nobody knows.

Someone states that they, "were supposed to be at Independence Rock a week ago." What does that mean about their travel schedule?

• They are 7 days behind schedule.

• They are 7 days ahead of schedule.

• They are a month behind.

• They haven't left yet.