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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Part 4 : Chapter 1, 1873 & 1874.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author credit with giving Custer his first big break in Chapter 10?
(a) General Smith.
(b) General Burnside.
(c) General Lee.
(d) General McClellan.

2. According to Chapter 20, what two Sioux leaders were jealous of each other?
(a) Young Man Afraid and Old Man Afraid.
(b) Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
(c) Sitting Bull and Red Cloud.
(d) Red Cloud and Spotted Tail.

3. Which regiment stages a mutiny against Custer in Texas?
(a) 2nd Kansas Cavalry.
(b) 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry.
(c) 1st Texas Cavalry.
(d) 4th Colorado Cavalry.

4. Who did Crazy Horse fall in love with around the time he turned twenty-one years old?
(a) Black Buffalo Woman.
(b) Red Shawl Woman.
(c) Daughter of Old-Man-Afraid-of-his-Horses.
(d) Sitting Bull's niece.

5. Custer wrote to Libbie that the "Indians have a new name for me." What was it?
(a) Thief.
(b) Liar.
(c) Loud man.
(d) Yellow Hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Custer become an aide to in 1863?

2. Who says, "Crazy Horse always led his men himself when they went into battle, and he kept well in front of them"?

3. Who did Custer meet on Thanksgiving evening in 1862?

4. Where was Custer's new regiment, the 7th Cavalry, assigned to in 1867?

5. What was Carrington's Achilles' heel?

(see the answer key)

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