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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. Why did Crazy Horse most likely not get the scalp of his first human kill?
(a) He did not have a scalping knife.
(b) He refused to scalp anyone.
(c) He was injured.
(d) He found out it was a woman.

2. How many Sioux were estimated to be at the great council at Bear Butte in Chapter 4?
(a) 1000 to 2500.
(b) 5000 to 7500.
(c) Less than a thousand.
(d) 3000 to 4500.

3. Who was so pleased with Custer's decision to attend West Point that he gave him $200 for expenses?
(a) His father.
(b) Congressman Bingham.
(c) The farmer, Mr. Monroe.
(d) The parent of one of his students.

4. In Chapter 7, what was constricting in Custer's life?
(a) Customs.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Religion.
(d) Expectations.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What year was George Armstrong Custer born?

3. In Chapter 7, what wars are cited as wars that Custer taught about?

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

5. How many times during their lives did Crazy Horse and Custer come in contact with each other?

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