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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who took Crazy Woman Morgan food and provisions over the years?
(a) The local women.
(b) Arkansas Pete.
(c) The Army.
(d) John Johnston and his Mountain Men friends.

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

3. How many days did it take Johnston to put the first ten miles between himself and the Blackfoot camp due to falling snow and having to cover his trail?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

4. What honorary title did the Shoshoni give Johnston?
(a) Peace chief.
(b) Warrior.
(c) Chief.
(d) Medicine man.

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

6. Which of Johnston's Mountain Men friends was with Johnston when he killed the eighteenth of the twenty Crow warriors Big Robert had sent after him?
(a) Mariano Moreno.
(b) Bigfoot Davis.
(c) Arkansas Pete.
(d) Del Gue.

7. How long did Waving Grass and Johnston travel and trap furs together?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two years.
(d) One month.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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 decided to intensify his raids against the Crow.
(c) He said Crow livers had made Johnston a coward.
(d) He offered to help the Crows kill Johnston.

14. 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) Gold and whiskey.
(b) Buffalo meat and antelope meat.
(c) Hawken rifles and Bowie knives.
(d) Furs and scalps.

15. 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?
(a) He knew the shot came from the opposite direction as Lapp.
(b) He knew Lapp had enough meat and thus wouldn't be shooting.
(c) He knew Lapp was already dead.
(d) He knew Lapp was blind and didn't shoot any more.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Johnston's Mountain Men friends frequently used the expression "Great Jehosophat, Pocahontas, and John Smith"?

2. When the Sioux attacked Fort Kearney in 1866, to where did Colonel Carrington, the commanding officer, need a volunteer to ride for reinforcements and assistance?

3. What did Waving Grass claim her relationship with Johnston was?

4. For which side did the Cherokee Indians fight in the Civil War?

5. With what type of rifle did the Army replace Johnston's Hawken?

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