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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who defeated the Sioux in battle at Wolf Mountain in 1877?
(a) General Custer.
(b) General Grant.
(c) General Miles.
(d) Colonel Carrington.

2. How did Johnston identify Bear Claw Chris Lapp's killers?
(a) They had Lapp's gun and knives with them.
(b) One of their horses had Lapp's saddle on it.
(c) They had Lapp's bear claw necklaces with them.
(d) They had blood on their hands and sleeves.

3. When Johnston made peace with the Crow and stopped eating their livers, what was the response of Black Elk, a Sioux chief?
(a) He rejoiced and gave a feast for Johnston.
(b) He said Crow livers had made Johnston a coward.
(c) He offered to help the Crows kill Johnston.
(d) He decided to intensify his raids against the Crow.

4. What was Johnston's first assignment in the Army?
(a) He was a cook.
(b) He was an infantryman.
(c) He was in the cavalry.
(d) He was made an officer.

5. How did Waving Grass end up on the prairie alone?
(a) She ran away from her captors.
(b) The Cheyenne abandoned her there.
(c) She got lost while gathering berries.
(d) She was abandoned by a Nez Perce lover.

6. For what did Mountain Men use Fort McPherson?
(a) As a vacation spot.
(b) As a place to find brides.
(c) As a trading post.
(d) As a gathering place.

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

8. What language did the Blackfoot chief The Wolf speak in addition to the Blackfoot tongue?
(a) Navajo.
(b) English.
(c) Flathead.
(d) Cheyenne.

9. What did the wife of the warrior who had captured Waving Grass do when her husband brought Waving Grass home?
(a) She gave Waving Grass unending heavy labor.
(b) She beat Waving Grass and starved the younger woman.
(c) She stabbed her husband in a fit of jealousy.
(d) She poisoned Waving Grass.

10. Which Sioux chief's spirit was broken after the battle at Wolf Mountain?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) Geronimo.
(c) Red Cloud.
(d) Crazy Horse.

11. How did Johnston, Del Gue, and Johnston's other friends escape from Johnston's cabin when the Blackfoot warriors surrounded it in Chapter 20?
(a) Through a hidden cellar door.
(b) Through a hidden trap door in the cabin's roof.
(c) Through a trap door in the floor.
(d) Through a tunnel in the rear of the property.

12. What was Johnston's only food on the long trail from the Blackfoot camp back to his own camp?
(a) The few fish he caught en route.
(b) Grass and berries.
(c) The leg he had taken from his guard.
(d) A few chaws of tobacco and some coffee beans.

13. After escaping from his Blackfoot Indian captors, how many miles did Johnston have to travel back to his own camp?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) Twelve.

14. When his cabin was surrounded by Blackfoot Indians in Chapter 20, what ingredient did Johnston add to a batch of biscuits?
(a) Strychnine.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Turpentine.
(d) Gunpowder.

15. When Del Gue, Hatchet Jack, and John Johnston met at Pryor's Fork in 1878, what two items that used to be available in abundance were scarce that year?
(a) Hawken rifles and Bowie knives.
(b) Gold and whiskey.
(c) Buffalo meat and antelope meat.
(d) Furs and scalps.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 25: Burial for Bear Claw, when Del Gue heard a rifle shot in the distance, how did Johnston deduce that the shot wasn't fired by Bear Claw Chris Lapp?

2. How many warriors rode with Johnston when he did as Wahni's son asked?

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

4. Who was Gray Bear?

5. Why did the son of the Shoshoni chief Wahni seek out Johnston?

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