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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. How old was Custer when he graduated from the Academy and started his first paying job?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty.

2. Who are the "loafers" referred to in Chapter 9?
(a) Indians who intermarried with white settlers.
(b) A group of Crow Indians.
(c) The men that Chivington chose at Sand Creek.
(d) Peaceful Indians who lived near and depended upon the fort.

3. What was the estimated number of buffalo on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 2.5 million.
(d) 75 million.

4. In Chapter 10, who writes, "I captured the greatest prize of all"?
(a) Libbie.
(b) Daniel Bacon.
(c) Custer.
(d) Gimlet Lea.

5. Where did Crazy Horse and other warriors go to sing or boast of bravery?
(a) Kiva.
(b) Chief's lodge.
(c) Arrow Creek.
(d) The akicita lodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Crazy Horse most likely not get the scalp of his first human kill?

2. In Chapter 7, what was constricting in Custer's life?

3. In Chapter 2, the author writes that Americans worked so much that work became ____________.

4. How many Native Americans made up the decoy party after camping on July 24, 1865?

5. According to the author in Chapter 7, why is Custer's culture more productive than Crazy Horse's?

(see the answer key)

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