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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. What did Old John Hatcher do with his Bowie knife after killing one of his attackers in Chapter 2?
(a) He scalped the Indian.
(b) He sold the knife to Joe Robidoux.
(c) He buried his knife and swore never to use it again.
(d) He gave his knife to Johnston as a gift.

2. Who attacked Johnston and Old John Hatcher in Chapter 2?
(a) An Arapaho raiding party.
(b) A group of silver miners.
(c) A Cheyenne raiding party.
(d) A group of women.

3. In what year did Johnston first come to St. Joseph?
(a) 1760.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1843.

4. What did John Johnston give The Swan after marrying her?
(a) A diamond ring.
(b) A big brown dog.
(c) A Tennessee rifle with powder and shot.
(d) A fancy red silk dress.

5. What did Joe Robidoux do to rival trader Manuel Lisa to prevent Lisa from trading with the Pawnee?
(a) He had the Shoshoni kidnap Lisa.
(b) He had Lisa arrested on false charges of theft.
(c) He locked Lisa in a cellar.
(d) He got Lisa so drunk that Lisa passed out.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Johnston identify the Crow Indians as The Swan's killers?

2. What was unusual about the forehead of the Flathead beauty The Swan?

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

4. What color horse did Joe Robidoux sell Johnston?

5. What did Johnston have to do to his own horse at the beginning of Chapter 8 because he had pushed it so hard?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 7, what were the Crow Indians like in the mid-nineteenth century?

3. In what ways did the lives of both the Indians and the Mountain Men change forever in 1876-77?

4. How did The Swan's forehead differ from the foreheads of other females in her tribe?

5. How did Johnston use biscuits to defeat twenty-nine Blackfoot Indians who surrounded his cabin?

6. How did Johnston get into trouble with the sheriff in Leadville, Colorado?

7. How did Johnston know when he found the Crow warrior who had killed The Swan and how did he react when he realized he had found his wife's murderer?

8. 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?

9. What baking talent of Johnston's led to his killing of the twentieth Crow sent to hunt him down and how did Johnston defeat this warrior?

10. Who was The Wolf and what was his relationship with John Johnston?

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