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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ohio's population in the 1800s is called a young population by the author. Why?
(a) 73 percent were under thirty years of age.
(b) 55 percent were under twenty years of age.
(c) White Americans had just moved to Ohio.
(d) 62 percent were under twenty-five.

2. What color were Custer's eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) Gray.

3. In 1865, the Oglala resurrected a system of government that acted as a chief's society. The seven men over forty who served were called what?
(a) Shirt-wearers.
(b) Chief council.
(c) Akicita society.
(d) Big Bellies.

4. Who led the Bad Faces band of Oglalas in Chapter 3?
(a) Red Cloud.
(b) Crazy Horse, the father.
(c) Bad Bear.
(d) Old Smoke.

5. What was the estimated number of buffalo on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century?
(a) 25 million.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 2.5 million.
(d) 75 million.

6. Who is Washakie?
(a) Oglala warrior.
(b) Headman of the Crow.
(c) Headman of the Shoshoni.
(d) Cheyenne warrior.

7. Who did Custer vote for in the 1864 election for president?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) It's unknown.
(c) Grant.
(d) McClellan.

8. In Chapter 10, who says, "it looks like treason" about a document?
(a) General McClellan.
(b) General Smith.
(c) Fernando Wood.
(d) Captain Custer.

9. According to the author in Chapter 7, what was the ultimate difference between Crazy Horse and Custer?
(a) Their mood.
(b) Religious beliefs.
(c) Hunting skills.
(d) Ability to ride a horse.

10. In Chapter 3, what aspect of Sioux life would Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, have called the "science of the concrete"?
(a) Animals as teachers.
(b) Storytelling.
(c) Visions.
(d) Hunting.

11. Who says, "Crazy Horse always led his men himself when they went into battle, and he kept well in front of them"?
(a) Hump.
(b) Bad Heart Bull.
(c) He Dog.
(d) Eleanor Hinman.

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

13. In Chapter 11, who on Custer's household staff took care of the horses?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Joseph Fought.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Johnnie Cisco.

14. Whose life was more controlled by time, according to Chapter 7?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Both men.
(c) Custer.
(d) Neither man.

15. What was Custer's nickname as a boy?
(a) Curly.
(b) Georgie.
(c) Goldilocks.
(d) Autie.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how much did Crazy Horse weigh at the age of 24?

2. How did Custer spend his teenager years according to Chapter 7?

3. According to Chapter 4, what was central to life for a Sioux male?

4. What is Pennsylvania Dutch?

5. What position was Custer serving in when he was arrested and court-martial proceedings were started against him?

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