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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of footwear did Arkansas Pete wear?
(a) Moccasins.
(b) Heavy cavalry boots.
(c) He went barefoot.
(d) Brogans.
2. What injury did Johnston give his Blackfoot guard in escaping from the Blackfoot camp?
(a) He blacked the Indian's eye.
(b) He cut the Indian's arm.
(c) He cut off the Indian's leg.
(d) He broke the Indian's wrist.
3. Why did the son of the Shoshoni chief Wahni seek out Johnston?
(a) To trade horses with him.
(b) To challenge Johnston in battle.
(c) To get Johnston's help in avenging his father's death.
(d) To trade furs with him.
4. What language did the Blackfoot chief The Wolf speak in addition to the Blackfoot tongue?
(a) Flathead.
(b) Navajo.
(c) English.
(d) Cheyenne.
5. What happened to Johnston's 40 gallons of whiskey during his captivity among the Blackfoot Indians?
(a) The containers were broken and the whiskey got spilled.
(b) The Wolf traded it to the Arapaho.
(c) The Wolf gave it to his braves and the Indians got drunk.
(d) The Wolf traded it to the Nez Perce.
6. What was Johnston's only food on the long trail from the Blackfoot camp back to his own camp?
(a) Grass and berries.
(b) The few fish he caught en route.
(c) The leg he had taken from his guard.
(d) A few chaws of tobacco and some coffee beans.
7. Which of Johnston's Mountain Men friends frequently used the expression "Great Jehosophat, Pocahontas, and John Smith"?
(a) Del Gue.
(b) Wind River Jake.
(c) Anton Sepulveda.
(d) Bear Claw Chris Lapp.
8. What tribe captured Waving Grass?
(a) The Crow.
(b) The Nez Perce.
(c) The Cheyenne.
(d) The Flatheads.
9. With what did the Blackfoot Indians hit Johnston while they had him tied up and unable to escape?
(a) Pebbles.
(b) Arrows.
(c) Their tomahawks.
(d) Large stones.
10. Who defeated the Sioux in battle at Wolf Mountain in 1877?
(a) General Custer.
(b) General Grant.
(c) General Miles.
(d) Colonel Carrington.
11. What reason did Johnston give for enlisting in the Army?
(a) It was the best fight available at the time.
(b) He needed the money.
(c) He was pro-Union.
(d) He didn't believe in slavery.
12. Who did Del Gue tell about Johnston's Blackfoot captivity despite Johnston's request that he not tell anyone the story?
(a) Colonel Carrington at Fort Kearney.
(b) Bear's Head.
(c) Bigfoot Davis, who spread it to others.
(d) Mariano Moreno.
13. When his cabin was surrounded by Blackfoot Indians in Chapter 20, what ingredient did Johnston add to a batch of biscuits?
(a) Gunpowder.
(b) Turpentine.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Strychnine.
14. In Chapter 25: Burial for Bear Claw, when Del Gue heard a rifle shot in the distance, how did Johnston deduce that the shot wasn't fired by Bear Claw Chris Lapp?
(a) He knew Lapp was blind and didn't shoot any more.
(b) He knew Lapp was already dead.
(c) He knew the shot came from the opposite direction as Lapp.
(d) He knew Lapp had enough meat and thus wouldn't be shooting.
15. After escaping from his Blackfoot Indian captors, how many miles did Johnston have to travel back to his own camp?
(a) Eighty.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) Twelve.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Johnston, Del Gue, and Johnston's other friends escape from Johnston's cabin when the Blackfoot warriors surrounded it in Chapter 20?
2. For what did Mountain Men use Fort McPherson?
3. What was Johnston's first assignment in the Army?
4. To what tribe did Waving Grass belong?
5. Why was Fort Kearney of particular abhorrence to the Sioux?
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