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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 Old John Hatcher do with his Bowie knife after killing one of his attackers in Chapter 2?
(a) He sold the knife to Joe Robidoux.
(b) He scalped the Indian.
(c) He gave his knife to Johnston as a gift.
(d) He buried his knife and swore never to use it again.

2. What two items did Johnston braid together and show Bear's Head in Chapter 8?
(a) The scalps of The Swan and her killer.
(b) The tails of his two favorite horses.
(c) Ribbons from an old dress of The Swan's.
(d) His hair and a set of bear claws.

3. How did Johnston respond when a river tramp tried to rob him upon his disembarking from the steamer that brought him west?
(a) He fainted.
(b) He knocked the tramp down.
(c) He called for the sheriff.
(d) He shot the tramp.

4. Which of Johnston's Mountain Men friends frequently used the expression "Great Jehosophat, Pocahontas, and John Smith"?
(a) Bear Claw Chris Lapp.
(b) Anton Sepulveda.
(c) Del Gue.
(d) Wind River Jake.

5. What did Crazy Woman Morgan do every night at sundown?
(a) She screamed.
(b) She put flowers on her dead children's graves.
(c) She fired her rifle into the woods.
(d) She prayed.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 25: Burial for Bear Claw, what happened to the elk Del Gue left overnight in a tree for safekeeping?

3. On the banks of what river did Johnston first encounter Old John Hatcher?

4. Why did Johnston seek out the Crow chief Gray Bear after Crazy Woman Morgan's death?

5. What treaty laid out specific boundaries for Crow territory?

(see the answer key)

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