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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 1 : Chapter 1, War & Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 7, who of the book's subjects had seen combat by this time?
(a) Both Crazy Horse and Custer.
(b) Neither Crazy Horse nor Custer.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Custer.

2. How did Custer spend his teenager years according to Chapter 7?
(a) Going to school.
(b) Competing against others.
(c) Trying to do something and be somebody.
(d) Playing practical jokes.

3. Who led the attack on Black Kettle's band of Cheyenne at Sand Creek in 1864?
(a) Colonel Collins.
(b) Colonel Chivington.
(c) Captain Custer.
(d) General Evans.

4. What political party did Custer belong to?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Republican.
(c) Democrat.
(d) Whig.

5. At what age did most Sioux boys participate in their first tribal hunt?
(a) Twelve or thirteen.
(b) Ten or eleven.
(c) Sixteen to seventeen.
(d) Fourteen to fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what ages did Custer and Crazy Horse become recognized leaders?

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

3. What book led to Custer writing an essay titled, "The Red Man" while at West Point?

4. How did Crazy Horse spend his teenage years according to Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 3, what aspect of Sioux life would Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, have called the "science of the concrete"?

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