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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. Of what wood were the handles of Johnston's Colt Walker revolver and his Bowie knife made?
(a) Pine.
(b) Oak.
(c) Rosewood.
(d) Mahogany.

2. Which of the following was not a gift Bear's Head bestowed on Johnston in Chapter 8?
(a) A new wife.
(b) A white buffalo blanket.
(c) A beaded Crow saddle.
(d) A horse.

3. What relationship did John Johnston have to Bear's Head, the Flathead chief?
(a) He was Bear's Head's friend.
(b) He was Bear's Head's blood brother.
(c) He was Bear's Head's son-in-law.
(d) He was Bear's Head's enemy.

4. How did Johnston respond when a river tramp tried to rob him upon his disembarking from the steamer that brought him west?
(a) He fainted.
(b) He knocked the tramp down.
(c) He shot the tramp.
(d) He called for the sheriff.

5. How many horses did the Flathead tribe have corralled near their camp for trading with the Crow in Chapter 8?
(a) One dozen.
(b) One thousand.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) Five hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did Crow Indian women have in the tribal council?

2. In 1848, what story spread through the west about the scalped and mutilated bodies of Crow warriors, and only Crow warriors, that were being found in the area?

3. What does the Crow term Dapiek Absaroka mean?

4. In Chapter 8, when Johnston showed Bear's Head the object he took from the Crow sentry, what did Bear's Head command his warriors to do?

5. What language was Bear's Head surprised to learn that Johnston could speak besides English?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Wahni's son want Johnston's help against the Nez Perce?

2. Discuss Johnston's encounter with the eighteenth Crow warrior sent after him by Big Robert.

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

4. What nicknames did John Johnston have?

5. Discuss the relationship between Waving Grass and John Johnston.

6. Who was Waving Grass and why did she get abandoned on the prairie?

7. What was Johnston's opinion of Buffalo Bill Cody and how did Johnston meet Cody?

8. 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?

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

10. Why did other Mountain Men seek out Johnston to help them settle scores with their enemies and what was Johnston's attitude toward vengeance?

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