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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 1 : Chapter 1, Chapters 5, 6 & 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the most important subject at West Point when Custer attended?
(a) Science.
(b) Math.
(c) Oration.
(d) Military strategy.

2. What more than tripled in Ohio from 1828 to 1850?
(a) Newspapers and periodicals.
(b) Towns.
(c) Population.
(d) Railroads.

3. According to Chapter 7, who of the book's subjects had seen combat by this time?
(a) Neither Crazy Horse nor Custer.
(b) Both Crazy Horse and Custer.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Custer.

4. What is Pennsylvania Dutch?
(a) Dutch immigrants who first settled in Pennsylvania.
(b) Dutch immigrants from Germany.
(c) Dutch immigrants from the Rhineland.
(d) German immigrants from the Rhineland.

5. What element of the weather do the Plains and the seashore share?
(a) High wind velocity.
(b) Warm, muggy temperatures.
(c) Limited rainfall.
(d) Lack of snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote to Custer, "...I had to weep for joy that the recollection was sweet in your memory"?

2. At what age did most Sioux boys participate in their first tribal hunt?

3. Who reported buffalo "as far as the eye could reach the country seemed blackened by innumerable herds"?

4. What political party did Custer belong to?

5. How old was Custer when he graduated from the Academy and started his first paying job?

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