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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What large group of Indians lived about a thousand miles north of the Navajo?
(a) The Santee Sioux
(b) the Ute
(c) The Cheyenne
(d) The Comanche

3. What name did the Arapaho give to the attack of Connor's men on the Arapaho village that resulted in the slaughter of 50 Indians?
(a) Battle of Tongue River that happened in the Moon when Geese shed their Feathers
(b) The Massacre at Sand Creek
(c) The Battle of the Powder River and the Little Big Horn Mountain
(d) The Battle of the Washita

4. What did the relocation of the Cherokee to Oklahoma become known as?
(a) Sorrowful Trail
(b) Buncombe Turnpike
(c) Chisholm Trail
(d) Trail of Tears

5. The Sioux chiefs are invited to a peace conference at what fort?
(a) Fort Connor
(b) Fort Laramie
(c) Fort Wise
(d) Fort Snelling

Short Answer Questions

1. What Cheyennes warrior warns an Arapaho village of an impending attack by Connor's men?

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

3. What is the name of the Fort where the Santee Sioux are kept until they are finally put on a reservation?

4. How does Little Crow die?

5. Where does the author, Dee Brown say the Indians learned their savage practices?

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