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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. How much more did Joe Robidoux charge Johnston for his traps than Johnston would have paid in St. Louis?
(a) Triple the St. Louis price.
(b) Twice the St. Louis price.
(c) Five times the St. Louis price.
(d) Twenty dollars more than the St. Louis price.

2. What did Johnston wear on Sundays when he was a deputy?
(a) An old blue broadcloth jacket and matching pants.
(b) A black suit.
(c) Buckskins and moccasins.
(d) Brown homespun pants and a white linen shirt.

3. Who volunteered for the dangerous job of riding for assistance for the besieged Fort Kearney?
(a) Del Gue.
(b) Portuguese Phillips.
(c) Hatchet Jack.
(d) John Johnston.

4. What did the warrior who had captured Waving Grass do instead of making her his first wife's slave?
(a) He killed her.
(b) He gave her to the chief's wife as her slave.
(c) He gave her to his brother's wife as her slave.
(d) He made her his favored second wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe what Old John Hatcher looked like when Johnston first met him?

2. After escaping from his Blackfoot Indian captors, how many miles did Johnston have to travel back to his own camp?

3. What wild animals did Johnston encounter during his journey from the Blackfoot camp back to his own camp?

4. In Chapter 26: Sheriff Johnson, what did the Cheyenne chief Hanging Kettle wear on his head?

5. Why was Fort Kearney of particular abhorrence to the Sioux?

(see the answer key)

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