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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Liver Eating Johnson, Chapters 6 through 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the trapping like at the place where Joe Robidoux advised Johnston to trap?
(a) Plenty of beaver and otter trapping was available.
(b) There was abundant trapping of all kinds of animals.
(c) The area was trapped out years before.
(d) Mink trapping was plentiful but there were no other animals.

2. Which of the following statements does not describe what Old John Hatcher looked like when Johnston first met him?
(a) Dressed in buckskin and moccasins.
(b) Dressed in a black frock coat and shiny black boots.
(c) Over six feet in height and two hundred pounds in weight.
(d) Long blonde hair and a beard.

3. What did Johnston have to do to his own horse at the beginning of Chapter 8 because he had pushed it so hard?
(a) Shoot it.
(b) Leave it on the prairie to rest and eat.
(c) Trade it to the Indians.
(d) Sell it.

4. Who helped Mrs. Morgan bury her three children and her husband's scalp?
(a) The Morgan children.
(b) Arkansas Pete.
(c) John Johnston.
(d) Del Gue.

5. What role did Crow Indian women have in the tribal council?
(a) They were allowed to attend council and offer their wisdom.
(b) They served refreshments during council meetings.
(c) They had no role and were not allowed to attend council.
(d) They led the council and presided over it.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what skill did the Crow Indians excel?

2. Which of the following was not a quality of the Crow Indians?

3. What was Johnston's attitude toward alcohol?

4. What item buried with the bones of Johnston's wife and baby revealed that the Crow were responsible for the deaths of Johnston's family?

5. What does the Crow term Dapiek Absaroka mean?

(see the answer key)

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