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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. How many Native Americans made up the decoy party after camping on July 24, 1865?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty.

2. What is the WPPA?
(a) West Point Provincial Academy.
(b) West Point Protocol Association.
(c) West Point Protestant Academy.
(d) West Point Protective Association.

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

4. Who is George Bent?
(a) One of the soldiers at Sand Creek.
(b) Half Cheyenne, son of a trader.
(c) A soldier at Fort Laramie.
(d) Half Shoshoni, son of a soldier.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Crazy Horse most likely not get the scalp of his first human kill?

2. What fellow West Point friend did Custer congratulate on his successes in the Confederate artillery?

3. Who does the author credit with giving Custer his first big break in Chapter 10?

4. What was Custer's first nickname at West Point?

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

(see the answer key)

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