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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: A Man Among Men, Chapters 11 through 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John Johnston do to the Crows as a result of what they had done to his wife?
(a) He had a party for them.
(b) He preached to them, urging them to repent.
(c) He killed and scalped them and ate their livers raw.
(d) He kidnapped their chief for vengeance.

2. How did the Flathead Indians get their flat foreheads?
(a) They tied pieces of wood to their children's brows.
(b) They were born that way.
(c) Big, flat stones were fastened to their brows during infancy.
(d) Their heavy headdresses made their skulls grow that way.

3. What did Crow Indians do to John Johnston's wife in 1847?
(a) They kidnapped her.
(b) They forced her to divorce Johnston.
(c) They made her their medicine woman.
(d) They scalped and killed her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much more did Joe Robidoux charge Johnston for the rifle than Johnston would have paid in St. Louis?

2. What did Johnston do to the Crow horses in Chapter 7?

3. When Johnston attacked and killed the Crow sentry in Chapter 7, what did he find in the Indian's possession?

4. Who did Del Gue tell about Johnston's Blackfoot captivity despite Johnston's request that he not tell anyone the story?

5. When the Sioux attacked Fort Kearney in 1866, to where did Colonel Carrington, the commanding officer, need a volunteer to ride for reinforcements and assistance?

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