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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Johnston identify the Crow Indians as The Swan's killers?
(a) The Swan lived long enough to identify her attackers.
(b) Her killers stole her locket which Johnston recognized.
(c) The Crow braves who killed her bragged about the act.
(d) A lone eagle feather, the tribe's sign, was at the murder scene.

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

3. 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?
(a) A beaded necklace made by the Crow.
(b) A Crow warrior's moccasin.
(c) A Crow chief's tomahawk.
(d) A single Eagle feather.

4. How much more did Joe Robidoux charge Johnston for his traps than Johnston would have paid in St. Louis?
(a) Twenty dollars more than the St. Louis price.
(b) Five times the St. Louis price.
(c) Twice the St. Louis price.
(d) Triple the St. Louis price.

5. What was the name of the steamer that brought Johnston from St. Louis to St. Joseph when he first came west to become a trapper?
(a) The Thames.
(b) The Carolina Belle.
(c) The Adelaide Maria.
(d) The Missouri Belle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Morgan children during the Indian attack on the family?

2. Who did Old John Hatcher tell Johnston would pay big money for Indian scalps?

3. What did Old John Hatcher make Johnston do to one of their attackers?

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

5. What does the Crow term Dapiek Absaroka mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Johnston keep hidden in a kettle buried in the mountains?

2. To what office did Johnston get elected in Red Lodge and how effective was he in the position?

3. Discuss Johnston's trailing of the Assiniboine warrior in Chapter 27 and what Johnson did with the Indian's liver.

4. How did John Johnston first meet Old John Hatcher and what business partnership did the two men forge?

5. How did Joe Robidoux cheat John Johnston when Johnston first started out as a trapper?

6. How did the Crow Indians become a laughingstock among other Indian nations and what did Big Robert, the Crow chief, do in response to the mocking of his tribe?

7. When did Johnston join the Union Army and what were some of his experiences while in the military?

8. Why did John Hatcher scalp Indians and how did John Johnston first encounter scalping?

9. What gifts did Johnston offer to Bear's Head for The Swan and how did the value of his presents compare to what price Bear's Head asked for his daughter?

10. What was ironic about Johnston's capturing the Sioux for Chief Black Eagle in Chapter 24?

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