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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 1 : Chapter 1, War & Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position was Custer serving in when he was arrested and court-martial proceedings were started against him?
(a) First Cadet.
(b) Officer of the Guard.
(c) Commandant of the Cadets.
(d) Officer of the Day.

2. What political party did Custer belong to?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Democrat.
(c) Republican.
(d) Whig.

3. What book led to Custer writing an essay titled, "The Red Man" while at West Point?
(a) Eutaw.
(b) Swallow Barn.
(c) Leatherstocking Tales.
(d) Last of the Mohicans.

4. What fellow West Point friend did Custer congratulate on his successes in the Confederate artillery?
(a) John Pelham.
(b) George Yates.
(c) Austin Blair.
(d) Gimlet Lea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On the expedition against the whites on the Plains in June 1865, who led the Cheyenne?

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

3. What was the estimated number of buffalo on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century?

4. What is the WPPA?

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

(see the answer key)

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