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Quiz for Document 10–2: Meriwether Lewis, The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What evidence of previous European contact did Lewis find with the Shoshone Indians?

The Bible

Spanish muskets

Brass kettles

French liquor

2. What event caused Lewis to compare the Shoshone to “brute creation”?

They stole from each other.

They killed one of Lewis’s men.

They attacked and decimated a neighboring tribe.

They devoured an entire deer.

3. How did Lewis describe the Shoshone as a people?

They were extremely wealthy in comparison to other tribes.

They were poor but very happy.

They were the fiercest warriors he had ever met.

They were greedy and evil.

4. According to Lewis, what set apart the Shoshone treatment of women from that of other tribes?

They treated their women much better than any of the other tribes Lewis had encountered.

They treated their women much worse than any of the other tribes Lewis had encountered.

They allowed their women to be leaders within the tribe.

The women were the religious leaders for the tribe.