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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Brother of the Crows, Chapters 19 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the wife of the warrior who had captured Waving Grass do when her husband brought Waving Grass home?
(a) She stabbed her husband in a fit of jealousy.
(b) She gave Waving Grass unending heavy labor.
(c) She poisoned Waving Grass.
(d) She beat Waving Grass and starved the younger woman.

2. What was Johnston's first assignment in the Army?
(a) He was an infantryman.
(b) He was a cook.
(c) He was made an officer.
(d) He was in the cavalry.

3. Who saw Johnston at his wife's secret grave and realized why he was on a vendetta against the Crow?
(a) An anonymous Indian.
(b) Hatchet Jack.
(c) Joe Robidoux.
(d) Del Gue.

4. In the fall of 1861, to whom was Johnston going to take 40 gallons of whiskey?
(a) The Flathead Indians.
(b) Del Gue.
(c) Mad Mose.
(d) The Cheyenne.

5. What other tribes contributed warriors to Johnston's forces when he rode out to do as Wahni's son had asked?
(a) The Apache and the Seminoles.
(b) The Sioux and the Comanche.
(c) The Utes, Flatheads, and Crows.
(d) The Cheyenne, Navajo, and Arapaho.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Johnston made peace with the Crow and stopped eating their livers, what was the response of Black Elk, a Sioux chief?

2. What happened to the reputation of the Crow as a result of Johnston's vendetta against them?

3. Which of the following statements does not describe the bowl of soup an old woman brought Johnston while he was held captive by the Blackfoot Indians?

4. What was the relationship between the Shoshonis and the Flatheads during Johnston's era?

5. What was Johnston's opinion of Buffalo Bill Cody?

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