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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of rifle did Joe Robidoux sell Johnston?
2. When the two Shoshoni braves met Johnston in Chapter 8, what were they carrying?
3. Who attacked Johnston and Old John Hatcher in Chapter 2?
4. 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?
5. What did Joe Robidoux do to his own son to acquire property the young man had inherited?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Johnston help The Crazy Woman in Chapter 4?
2. Discuss Johnston's trailing of the Assiniboine warrior in Chapter 27 and what Johnson did with the Indian's liver.
3. How did the Crazy Woman die and how did her death lead to Johnston's making peace with the Crow?
4. Discuss the relationship between Waving Grass and John Johnston.
5. What tragic encounter did the Morgan family have with Blackfoot Indians in Chapter 4?
6. How did the Mountain Men's Springfield rifles differ from their old Hawken rifles?
7. How did Johnston identify Bear Claw Chris Lapp's killers?
8. With whom did Johnston partner in 1878 and what difficulties did the trapping partners face?
9. When Johnston became a deputy sheriff in Custer County, Colorado, in what ways was he effective as a lawman and in what ways was he ineffective as a lawman?
10. In what ways did the lives of both the Indians and the Mountain Men change forever in 1876-77?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss John Johnston's relationship with Crazy Woman Morgan. What does this relationship indicate about Johnston? How does his relationship with the mentally unbalanced woman help bring an end to Johnston's vendetta against the Crow? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the concept of survival in Crow Killer: The Legend of Liver-Eating Johnson. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
According to the introduction of the book, Raymond Thorp obtained much of the information he used to write about Liver-Eating Johnson from oral history. Discuss the sources Raymond Thorp used in writing his biography and the likelihood that John Johnston's story contains myth or legend as well as fact. What factors make it likely that there is some myth in the story? What documentation exists to prove that some of the story is fact? Cite examples from the text to support your conclusions.
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