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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 3 : Chapter 2, Custer & Crazy Horse both on the Plains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age did most Sioux boys participate in their first tribal hunt?
(a) Twelve or thirteen.
(b) Fourteen to fifteen.
(c) Ten or eleven.
(d) Sixteen to seventeen.

2. According to a letter Custer wrote to his sister, what percentage of students at West Point failed?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Thirty-five.

3. What medal did Tom Custer receive for his actions at Appomattox?
(a) Meritorious Service Award.
(b) Purple Heart.
(c) Congressional Medal of Honor.
(d) Exceptional Service Medal.

4. What animal slept with Custer at night in Chapter 11?
(a) Cat.
(b) Dog.
(c) Raccoon.
(d) Squirrel.

5. What does Custer take a resolution to not do anymore in 1869?
(a) Drink.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Gamble.
(d) Stay away from Libbie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Carrington's Achilles' heel?

2. What element of the weather do the Plains and the seashore share?

3. Where was Custer's new regiment, the 7th Cavalry, assigned to in 1867?

4. What did Crazy Horse "do for a living" according to Chapter 8?

5. Whose life was more controlled by time, according to Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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