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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. Who is George Bent?
(a) A soldier at Fort Laramie.
(b) One of the soldiers at Sand Creek.
(c) Half Cheyenne, son of a trader.
(d) Half Shoshoni, son of a soldier.

2. According to Chapter 13, what was the first financial offer that the government made to Plains tribes?
(a) $25,000 annuities.
(b) $20,000 annuities.
(c) $10,000 annuities.
(d) $15,000 annuities.

3. Approximately how many men served under Custer at Gettysburg?
(a) 1,700.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 4,800.

4. What river takes the Custer party to Alexandria?
(a) Red River.
(b) Canadian River.
(c) Mississippi River.
(d) Ohio River.

5. Who was placed in charge of the Department of the Mississippi?
(a) General Tecumseh.
(b) Colonel Carrington.
(c) Colonel Taylor.
(d) Major General Sherman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did "Custer get a decent return on the investment of his men's lives"?

2. What was the estimated number of buffalo on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century?

3. What was Custer's nickname as a boy?

4. At age ten, Custer went to live with his half-sister and her new husband who lived in __________.

5. Who kills Little Hawk?

(see the answer key)

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