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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. In 1854, who owned the trading house near Fort Laramie?
(a) Francis Parkman.
(b) Henry Hawk.
(c) Jim Bordeaux.
(d) John Grattan.

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

3. How much did the leather cap that West Point cadets were required to wear weigh?
(a) One pound.
(b) Five pounds.
(c) Six pounds.
(d) Three pounds.

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

5. What year was George Armstrong Custer born?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1838.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1839.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element of the weather do the Plains and the seashore share?

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

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

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

5. What are the Lance Owners?

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