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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The War to Save the Buffalo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the Santee Sioux to want to leave the reservation?
(a) They leave to attack settlers
(b) They leave to attack other Indians
(c) they don't have enough food
(d) They want to go to their sacred grounds

2. When Cochise is imprisoned for something he did not do what is his reaction?
(a) He escapes and moves to Mexico
(b) He has no reaction
(c) He attacks the court judge
(d) He escapes and kills three white men

3. Roman Nose gets upset with a woman preparing his food because she does what?
(a) Uses white man's food
(b) Makes the food too hot
(c) Fails to use wild buffalo
(d) Uses a metal spoon

4. What Kiowa chief counsels to stay on the reservation?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Ten Bears
(c) Kicking Bird
(d) Crazy Horse

5. Who does Roman Nose specifically refuse to meet with?
(a) General Custer
(b) General Taylor
(c) General Sheridan
(d) General Sherman

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led a private expedition into the Powder River region in 1865?

2. What event in January of 1863 causes Cochise to go back on the war path?

3. Whose comment became the famous phrase, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?

4. What is the result of Hancock's actions?

5. News of what event angers Roman Nose?

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