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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was Gray Bear?
(a) A Shoshoni warrior.
(b) A Cheyenne chief.
(c) The Crow chief.
(d) A Flathead warrior.

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

4. What Anglican nickname did Modeno give his Indian wife?
(a) Sue.
(b) John.
(c) Betty.
(d) Steve.

5. Why did the son of the Shoshoni chief Wahni seek out Johnston?
(a) To trade furs with him.
(b) To trade horses with him.
(c) To challenge Johnston in battle.
(d) To get Johnston's help in avenging his father's death.

6. Who did The Wolf assign to guard Johnston?
(a) An old woman.
(b) The Wolf's own two sons.
(c) Ten of the tribe's bravest warriors.
(d) A lone young warrior.

7. What other tribes contributed warriors to Johnston's forces when he rode out to do as Wahni's son had asked?
(a) The Sioux and the Comanche.
(b) The Apache and the Seminoles.
(c) The Cheyenne, Navajo, and Arapaho.
(d) The Utes, Flatheads, and Crows.

8. What nickname did Johnston and his Mountain Men friends give to the newcomers to the western frontier in Chapter 25: Burial for Bear Claw?
(a) Eastern Eagles.
(b) Greenies.
(c) Pilgrim tenderfoots.
(d) Eastern Injuns.

9. 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 trap door in the floor.
(b) Through a hidden trap door in the cabin's roof.
(c) Through a hidden cellar door.
(d) Through a tunnel in the rear of the property.

10. Who was Portuguese Phillips?
(a) A fur trader.
(b) An Army scout and friend of Johnston's.
(c) A Mexican explorer.
(d) An outlaw who challenged Johnston to a duel.

11. What injury did Johnston give his Blackfoot guard in escaping from the Blackfoot camp?
(a) He cut the Indian's arm.
(b) He cut off the Indian's leg.
(c) He blacked the Indian's eye.
(d) He broke the Indian's wrist.

12. What kind of footwear did Johnston and most other Mountain Men wear?
(a) Moccasins.
(b) Boots.
(c) Brogans.
(d) High tops.

13. What did Waving Grass claim her relationship with Johnston was?
(a) She claimed to be his cousin.
(b) She claimed to be his sister.
(c) She claimed to be his wife.
(d) She claimed to be his mother.

14. How old was John Johnston when he joined the Union Army?
(a) Forty-one.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Fifty.

15. What assignment was Johnston given in the Army once his skills were known?
(a) He was promoted to lieutenant.
(b) He was made a sharpshooter.
(c) He was made a spy.
(d) He was put into the cavalry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Mountain Man had no memory prior to his own scalping, which he survived?

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

3. What did the wife of the warrior who had captured Waving Grass do when her husband brought Waving Grass home?

4. How did the other Mountain Men respond to the news that the Blackfoot Indians had held Johnston captive?

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

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