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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is humiliated by the Crow at Rosebud?
(a) General Crook.
(b) Jack Red Cloud.
(c) Chief Comes-in-Sight.
(d) General Gibbon.

2. How many men of the 7th Cavalry did Custer march toward Little Bighorn?
(a) 611.
(b) 1000.
(c) 735.
(d) 820.

3. One of the boys who listened to Crazy Horse tell stories became a famous holy man. Who was it?
(a) Black Kettle.
(b) Geronimo.
(c) Fool Crow.
(d) Black Elk.

4. What was Carrington's Achilles' heel?
(a) Horses.
(b) Poor commanding officers.
(c) Need for water.
(d) Need for wood.

5. Who has Custer arrested on the Yellowstone campaign?
(a) Lieutenant Stanley.
(b) Sheridan.
(c) Sherman.
(d) Grant.

6. Who killed Captain Fetterman?
(a) Fetterman killed himself.
(b) Crazy Horse.
(c) Captain Brown.
(d) Hump.

7. When did Custer leave for Fort McPherson?
(a) August, 1868.
(b) May, 1866.
(c) June, 1867.
(d) July, 1869.

8. Who was the Cheyenne leader at Little Bighorn?
(a) Black Elk.
(b) Gall.
(c) Two Moons.
(d) Looks Twice.

9. Where was Custer's new regiment, the 7th Cavalry, assigned to in 1867?
(a) Fort Hays.
(b) Fort Dodge.
(c) Fort Riley.
(d) Fort Leavenworth.

10. When E.B. Taylor met with Red Cloud, what did he raise the annual annuities to?
(a) $75,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $60,000.
(d) $100,000.

11. Which railroad originated in California?
(a) California Pacific.
(b) Central Pacific.
(c) Union Pacific.
(d) Kansas Pacific.

12. Who blocked Custer's path on the north side of the river with approximately 1,500 Hunkpapas?
(a) Gall.
(b) Two Moons.
(c) He Dog.
(d) Sitting Bull.

13. Along what trail did the army plan to build a fort in 1866?
(a) Oregon.
(b) Bozeman.
(c) Santa Fe.
(d) Overland.

14. Where did Red Cloud make what the author calls a "splendid" speech?
(a) Potomac River, Washington, D.C.
(b) World's Fair, Chicago.
(c) Cooper Union, New York.
(d) State Capitol, Omaha.

15. Who is Mitch Bouyer?
(a) Indian agent.
(b) Scout.
(c) Half-blood Crow tracker.
(d) Army Lieutenant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon was Crazy Horse carrying at Little Bighorn?

2. What is the highest hill at the northern end of the bluffs at Little Bighorn called today?

3. Who operated as the rear guard in the fight against the Shoshoni in Chapter 17?

4. Custer wrote to Libbie that the "Indians have a new name for me." What was it?

5. What does the phrase, "to touch the pen" mean?

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