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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Crazy Horse fall in love with around the time he turned twenty-one years old?
2. According to a letter Custer wrote to his sister, what percentage of students at West Point failed?
3. Who reported buffalo "as far as the eye could reach the country seemed blackened by innumerable herds"?
4. The Black Hills were known to the Sioux as a holy place called ______________.
5. Who wrote to Custer, "...I had to weep for joy that the recollection was sweet in your memory"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe what happened when Custer and his wife left for the Wilderness Campaign.
2. According to the author, what led Curly to seek a vision in Chapter 4?
3. Who is Custer's first love, and how does he know her?
4. How are Crazy Horse and Custer viewed during their late teens?
5. What religion did the Custer family practice, and where did they worship?
6. Describe the plunder that George Bent reports he sees in an Indian camp as the Sioux and Cheyenne attack settlements along the Platte River.
7. How did Colonel Chivington set up the events of the Sand Creek Massacre?
8. Describe Curly's first human kill.
9. What was the demerit policy of West Point when Custer attended? How many demerits did he regularly receive?
10. Chapter 2 speaks of the 19th century attitude of "getting rid of it." What does this refer to?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose the man, Crazy Horse or Custer, whom you most admire most after reading this book.Write an essay on why you admire this man, providing facts from the book to support your position.
Essay Topic 2
In "Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors," author Stephen Ambrose attempts to find parallels between two warriors in history. In your opinion, is Ambrose successful, or are the two men more different than Ambrose leads us to believe in the Introduction?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the economic depression of 1873. Contrast it with a later economic depression in the United States.
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