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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: The Old Trapper, Chapters 25 through 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the steamer that brought Johnston from St. Louis to St. Joseph when he first came west to become a trapper?
(a) The Adelaide Maria.
(b) The Missouri Belle.
(c) The Thames.
(d) The Carolina Belle.

2. How old was John Johnston when he joined the Union Army?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Forty-one.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty.

3. What items did Johnston bring to the trading post to trade once he began his vendetta against the Crow?
(a) Crow horses.
(b) Beaver pelts and bullets.
(c) Clothing and beadwork and leather stolen from the Crow.
(d) Furs and Crow scalps.

4. Why did Johnston have to do what Wahni's son asked of him?
(a) It was Johnston's duty as an honorary Shoshoni chief.
(b) Johnston's life was in danger otherwise.
(c) He was Wahni's good friend.
(d) Many people would die if he did not do as the youth asked.

5. Who took Crazy Woman Morgan food and provisions over the years?
(a) John Johnston and his Mountain Men friends.
(b) The local women.
(c) The Army.
(d) Arkansas Pete.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Joe Robidoux do to his own son to acquire property the young man had inherited?

3. In Chapter 19, which tribe of Indians attacked and killed Shoshoni women and children out gathering roots on the prairie?

4. Who saw Johnston at his wife's secret grave and realized why he was on a vendetta against the Crow?

5. What community elected Johnston as marshal in 1888?

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