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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Del Gue tell about Johnston's Blackfoot captivity despite Johnston's request that he not tell anyone the story?
(a) Bigfoot Davis, who spread it to others.
(b) Colonel Carrington at Fort Kearney.
(c) Mariano Moreno.
(d) Bear's Head.

2. Which Mountain Man had no memory prior to his own scalping, which he survived?
(a) Mad Mose.
(b) Hatchet Jack.
(c) Wind River Jake.
(d) Pancho Robles.

3. What tribe captured Waving Grass?
(a) The Nez Perce.
(b) The Cheyenne.
(c) The Crow.
(d) The Flatheads.

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

5. To what tribe did Waving Grass belong?
(a) The Utes.
(b) The Piegan.
(c) The Arapaho.
(d) The Cheyenne.

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. Which Ute chief was Modeno's enemy?
(a) Lone Bear.
(b) Red Jacket.
(c) Deloro.
(d) Captain Jack.

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

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

13. In the fall of 1861, to whom was Johnston going to take 40 gallons of whiskey?
(a) The Flathead Indians.
(b) The Cheyenne.
(c) Del Gue.
(d) Mad Mose.

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

15. 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) Bigfoot Davis.
(b) Del Gue.
(c) Arkansas Pete.
(d) Mariano Moreno.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who defeated the Sioux in battle at Wolf Mountain in 1877?

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

3. What language did the Blackfoot chief The Wolf speak in addition to the Blackfoot tongue?

4. What reason did Johnston give for enlisting in the Army?

5. What did the warrior who had captured Waving Grass do instead of making her his first wife's slave?

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