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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leads the charge at the Battle at Rosebud?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) General Crook.
(d) General Custer.

2. What position is Custer offered in Chapter 14 that pays $10,000 a year?
(a) Fort Commander over Fort Kearney.
(b) Position in the War Department in Washington, D.C.
(c) Position in Mexican Army.
(d) Position protecting California railway workers.

3. Who was Custer to accompany on his first post-Civil War assignment?
(a) General Kirby-Smith.
(b) General Sheridan.
(c) General Grant.
(d) General Sherman.

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

5. What does the phrase, "to touch the pen" mean?
(a) A chief touched a pen that was then used by a white man to write the chief's name.
(b) To sign a treaty.
(c) Lets the white government know that a tribe is interested in making a treaty.
(d) To agree to negotiate a treaty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Medicine Arrow do to give Custer bad luck?

2. In Chapter 22, what did the occasional fisherman used for fish bait?

3. What was the title of Libbie's description of her and her husband's time at Fort Hays?

4. In the last five months of 1866, how many times did the Sioux attack Fort Phil Kearny?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the author, what mistakes did Custer make at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

2. Why was Custer's desertion rate in Kansas so high?

3. Crazy Horse becomes a leader of a band of Sioux in Chapter 20. Explain what this means.

4. What two men taught Custer the most about the Plains and the tribes that live there?

5. Describe Red Cloud in 1866 and what makes him a good leader.

6. How does E.B. Taylor induce Indian leaders to sign treaties?

7. Why is Custer bored in Chapter 17?

8. What did Crazy Horse's friend, He Dog, decide to do before the battle at Rosebud?

9. By the spring of 1866, what progress has been made on the railroads, and what are the future plans?

10. What is the "Panic of 1873"?

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