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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. According to the author in Chapter 7, why is Custer's culture more productive than Crazy Horse's?
(a) Greater technology.
(b) It is more disciplined.
(c) More assets.
(d) Larger population.

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

3. At what age did most Sioux boys participate in their first tribal hunt?
(a) Fourteen to fifteen.
(b) Twelve or thirteen.
(c) Sixteen to seventeen.
(d) Ten or eleven.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last major tribe pushed onto the Plains by military defeats with other tribes?

2. Who wrote to Custer, "...I had to weep for joy that the recollection was sweet in your memory"?

3. At what ages did Custer and Crazy Horse become recognized leaders?

4. What political party did Custer belong to?

5. What more than tripled in Ohio from 1828 to 1850?

(see the answer key)

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