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

2. What was Custer's nickname as a boy?
(a) Autie.
(b) Curly.
(c) Georgie.
(d) Goldilocks.

3. Who reported buffalo "as far as the eye could reach the country seemed blackened by innumerable herds"?
(a) Francis Parkman.
(b) George Armstrong Custer.
(c) The father of Crazy Horse.
(d) Captain Benjamin Bonneville.

4. What more than tripled in Ohio from 1828 to 1850?
(a) Population.
(b) Newspapers and periodicals.
(c) Railroads.
(d) Towns.

5. What was the last major tribe pushed onto the Plains by military defeats with other tribes?
(a) Chippewa.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Crow.
(d) Arapaho.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did Crazy Horse go by as a child?

2. During the time period of this book, what trees were common along streams on the Great Plains ?

3. Ohio's population in the 1800s is called a young population by the author. Why?

4. What was the most important subject at West Point when Custer attended?

5. In 1854, who owned the trading house near Fort Laramie?

(see the answer key)

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