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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book4, Part 4 : Chapter 2, Chapters 21 & 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medal did Tom Custer receive for his actions at Appomattox?
(a) Purple Heart.
(b) Congressional Medal of Honor.
(c) Meritorious Service Award.
(d) Exceptional Service Medal.

2. What bad news did Custer receive on January 31, 1866?
(a) He had been demoted to Captain.
(b) He is to be court-martialed.
(c) His first child has died during childbirth.
(d) His mother had died.

3. Whose brains splattered on Reno's face during fire?
(a) Lieutenant Clark.
(b) Benteen.
(c) Bloody Knief.
(d) John Martini.

4. What was the Army's station from their fight at Little Bighorn and where Custer planned for them to return to after the battle?
(a) Fort Omaha.
(b) Fort Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Fort MacArthur.
(d) Fort Laramie.

5. In Chapter 3, what aspect of Sioux life would Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, have called the "science of the concrete"?
(a) Storytelling.
(b) Animals as teachers.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Visions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Libbie's description of her and her husband's time at Fort Hays?

2. One of the boys who listened to Crazy Horse tell stories became a famous holy man. Who was it?

3. When did Custer leave for Fort McPherson?

4. What is Pennsylvania Dutch?

5. According to the author, who has written the definitive biography of George Custer?

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