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Cities and towns quiz
This 10-question quiz goes with the curriculum page on Cities and towns of Montana's Missouri River. Just answer the questions with a mouse click in front of the correct answer and your score will be compiled when you're done. Good luck!

	1. This Missouri River town was named after an early fur trader and mountain man and it's said the cowboys there at times got a little rowdy, riding their horses into the saloons, or yelling and shouting. Culbertson Poplar Helena Loma
	2. This town was named for the wide-spread stands of trees on the banks of the Missouri there. Oakville Poplar Piney Butte Sycamore
	3. This Missouri River town is on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and has Montana's oldest pro-rodeo. Great Falls Townsend Wolf Point Culbertson
	4. The name of this town is the Indian term for "meeting of two streams." Loma Nashua Townsend Cascade
	5. At this town, you can ring the buzzer and the ferry operator will come over the Missouri to pick up you and your vehicle. Fort Peck Cascade Virgelle Three Forks
	6. Just one mile south of this town, there's a marker for the "Decision Point" on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail which is where the explorers determined whether or not the Marias was a main stem of the Missouri. They concluded that it was not. Loma Nashua Great Falls Fort Benton
	7. As a trading post, military fort and head of steamboat navigation, this was perhaps the most important overland connection on the Missouri River and it has Montana's Lewis and Clark memorial, a heroic-sized statue of the explorers, Sacagawea and her son. Helena Black Eagle Fort Peck Fort Benton
	8. This town is known as the "Electric City" because of its numerous dams and power plants and is Montana's third largest city. Helena Great Falls Carter Three Forks
	9. This town is the capital of Montana and is near to three major dams on the Missouri -- Holter, Hauser and Canyon Ferry. Great Falls Helena Craig Toston
	10. This town is at the headwaters of the Missouri, where the Madison, Gallatin and Jefferson rivers come together. Ulm Carter Black Eagle Three Forks

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