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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) Twenty dollars more than the St. Louis price.
(c) Twice the St. Louis price.
(d) Five times the St. Louis price.

2. What did Johnston have to do to his own horse at the beginning of Chapter 8 because he had pushed it so hard?
(a) Trade it to the Indians.
(b) Sell it.
(c) Leave it on the prairie to rest and eat.
(d) Shoot it.

3. Who attacked Johnston and Old John Hatcher in Chapter 2?
(a) A group of silver miners.
(b) A Cheyenne raiding party.
(c) A group of women.
(d) An Arapaho raiding party.

4. In Chapter 8, when Johnston showed Bear's Head the object he took from the Crow sentry, what did Bear's Head command his warriors to do?
(a) Take Johnston prisoner.
(b) Avenge The Swan by fighting the Crow coming to trade.
(c) Make Johnston an honorary chief.
(d) Send presents to the Crow.

5. Of what wood were the handles of Johnston's Colt Walker revolver and his Bowie knife made?
(a) Pine.
(b) Rosewood.
(c) Mahogany.
(d) Oak.

6. When were the warriors Big Robert sent after Johnston supposed to return home?
(a) Once Johnston was dead.
(b) By the end of the next winter season.
(c) Once they captured Johnston.
(d) Once they found Johnston.

7. Who did Johnston find in his cabin when he returned to it at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Anton Sepulveda.
(b) Bear's Head.
(c) The Fox.
(d) Del Gue.

8. Who saw Johnston at his wife's secret grave and realized why he was on a vendetta against the Crow?
(a) Hatchet Jack.
(b) Del Gue.
(c) An anonymous Indian.
(d) Joe Robidoux.

9. Who was following Big Robert's warriors toward the Flathead camp in Chapter 7?
(a) The Utes.
(b) The U.S. Army.
(c) John Johnston.
(d) The Cheyenne.

10. To which Indian tribe did the raiding party that attacked the Morgan family in 1846 belong?
(a) The Crow tribe.
(b) The Ute tribe.
(c) The Cheyenne tribe.
(d) The Blackfoot tribe.

11. Who was Wahni or "The Fox"?
(a) A Shoshoni chief and Johnston's friend.
(b) A Flathead warrior and The Swan's brother.
(c) A Crow chief.
(d) Johnston's arch enemy.

12. In what year did Johnston first come to St. Joseph?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1760.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1843.

13. What happened to John Morgan, the family's father, during the Indian attack on the family?
(a) His wife accidentally shot him trying to defend the family.
(b) He was scalped and taken away, still alive, by the Indians.
(c) He killed himself rather than be taken alive by the Indians.
(d) He was saved by John Johnston.

14. What relationship did John Johnston have to Bear's Head, the Flathead chief?
(a) He was Bear's Head's enemy.
(b) He was Bear's Head's friend.
(c) He was Bear's Head's son-in-law.
(d) He was Bear's Head's blood brother.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the trapping like at the place where Joe Robidoux advised Johnston to trap?

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

3. How did Johnston respond when a river tramp tried to rob him upon his disembarking from the steamer that brought him west?

4. What did Old John Hatcher do with his Bowie knife after killing one of his attackers in Chapter 2?

5. 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?

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