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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 2 : Chapter 2, Young Warriors- Custer & Crazy Horse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the estimated number of buffalo on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 2.5 million.
(d) 75 million.

2. When did Custer become a Major General?
(a) July, 1863.
(b) May, 1864.
(c) January, 1865.
(d) September, 1864.

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

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

5. What old friend did Custer persuade General Pleasonton to give him as as aide?
(a) Sargent Sherwood.
(b) Lieutenant Yates.
(c) Captain Holmes.
(d) Tom Custer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 7, who of the book's subjects had seen combat by this time?

3. Who says, "Crazy Horse always led his men himself when they went into battle, and he kept well in front of them"?

4. What is Pennsylvania Dutch?

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

(see the answer key)

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