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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: The Old Trapper, Chapters 25 through 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the Leadville sheriff?
(a) Bill Greiner.
(b) Anthony Browne.
(c) Matthew Kirk.
(d) Tom Jones.

2. What result did Johnston's fame have on Indians who ambushed him?
(a) They respected him.
(b) They greatly feared him.
(c) They mocked him.
(d) They doubted the truth of his reputation and wanted to test it.

3. What was the Flathead greeting for a visiting relative?
(a) Bowing on one knee and touching the ground with a spear.
(b) Hugging the visitor.
(c) Rubbing their cheek with your cheek.
(d) Putting your right hand on the left side of the visitor's chest.

4. What did Waving Grass claim her relationship with Johnston was?
(a) She claimed to be his mother.
(b) She claimed to be his sister.
(c) She claimed to be his cousin.
(d) She claimed to be his wife.

5. What did Joe Robidoux do to his own son to acquire property the young man had inherited?
(a) He forged his son's name on a bill of sale for the property.
(b) He had his son declared mentally incompetent.
(c) He locked his son in a cellar.
(d) He tricked his son out of the land in a crooked poker game.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the sheriff want Johnston to handle fights in the town?

2. Who once saved the son of the Shoshoni chief Wahni from a big wildcat?

3. Why was Fort Kearney of particular abhorrence to the Sioux?

4. What was Johnston's opinion of Buffalo Bill Cody?

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

(see the answer key)

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