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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. Cochise finally reaches an agreement with what US General?
(a) General Wise
(b) General Hood
(c) General Howard
(d) General Taylor

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

3. At what location are most of the Cheyennes Indians massacred?
(a) Sand Creek
(b) Red Rock
(c) Little Big Horn
(d) Washita

4. Who are Red Cloud, Man Afraid of his Horses, and Dull Knife?
(a) Three surviving Arapaho chiefs
(b) Sitting Bull's most famous followers
(c) Three prominant Sioux warrior chiefs
(d) Three chiefs who betray the Sioux nation

5. One of the Sioux's most famous warriors during the Powder River encounters goes by what name?
(a) Chief Joseph
(b) Roman Nose
(c) Little Horse
(d) Captain Jack

Short Answer Questions

1. One character is chapter has a name which means "Keeper of the Western Door of the Long House of the Iroquois." Who is this?

2. Who does Roman Nose specifically refuse to meet with?

3. In 1865 what US General was preparing a new military initiative against the Indians near the Black Hills?

4. When Cochise falls deathly ill, who tries to save him?

5. After a treaty meeting between US soldiers and Cheyennes chief's this man said, " I felt myself in the presence of superior beings:"

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is General George Crook important in the history of Indian affairs?

2. Why is life at Fort Sill so disliked by the Kiowa's?

3. What happened to the Nez Perces when they tried to move to Canada?

4. Who is Edward R. S. Canby?

5. Why does a treaty not become a reality?

6. Why did Parker not remain in his governmental position?

7. How did European ideas about land ownership and the sovereignty of the crown conflict with the Native American ideas about the use of the land?

8. Who is Captain Jack?

9. How do the Indians of the Plains misinterpret their success over the Bluecoats along the Powder River?

10. Briefly describe why Cheyennes are continually leaving the reservation?

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