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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: The Young Trapper, Chapters 1 through 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Long blonde hair and a beard.
(c) Over six feet in height and two hundred pounds in weight.
(d) Dressed in buckskin and moccasins.

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

3. What result did Johnston's fame have on Indians who ambushed him?
(a) They mocked him.
(b) They doubted the truth of his reputation and wanted to test it.
(c) They greatly feared him.
(d) They respected him.

4. With which more experienced trapper did Johnston first become friends upon moving west?
(a) Del Gue.
(b) Old John Hatcher.
(c) Anton Sepulveda.
(d) Hatchet Jack.

5. How did Johnston identify the Crow Indians as The Swan's killers?
(a) A lone eagle feather, the tribe's sign, was at the murder scene.
(b) The Swan lived long enough to identify her attackers.
(c) Her killers stole her locket which Johnston recognized.
(d) The Crow braves who killed her bragged about the act.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Old John Hatcher make Johnston do to one of their attackers?

2. To which Indian tribe did the raiding party that attacked the Morgan family in 1846 belong?

3. What does the Crow term Dapiek Absaroka mean?

4. With what weapon did Mrs. Morgan fight off the Indians who attacked her family?

5. Who helped Mrs. Morgan bury her three children and her husband's scalp?

(see the answer key)

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