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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 1 : Chapter 1, Chapters 5, 6 & 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ohio's population in the 1800s is called a young population by the author. Why?
(a) 62 percent were under twenty-five.
(b) 55 percent were under twenty years of age.
(c) White Americans had just moved to Ohio.
(d) 73 percent were under thirty years of age.

2. Who said to give the Indian "a love for exclusive property"?
(a) Founding father, Samuel Adams.
(b) Secretary of War, Henry Knox.
(c) President Andrew Jackson.
(d) Vermont lawyer, Thomas Farnham.

3. According to the author in Chapter 7, what was the ultimate difference between Crazy Horse and Custer?
(a) Their mood.
(b) Hunting skills.
(c) Ability to ride a horse.
(d) Religious beliefs.

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

5. When did Custer enter West Point Military Academy?
(a) July, 1857.
(b) September, 1858.
(c) June, 1860.
(d) August, 1859.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Custer when he graduated from the Academy and started his first paying job?

2. Who reported buffalo "as far as the eye could reach the country seemed blackened by innumerable herds"?

3. At age ten, Custer went to live with his half-sister and her new husband who lived in __________.

4. According to Chapter 7, who of the book's subjects had seen combat by this time?

5. In what year was George Armstrong Custer born?

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