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

2. According to a letter Custer wrote to his sister, what percentage of students at West Point failed?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Thirty-five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

3. What was the last major tribe pushed onto the Plains by military defeats with other tribes?
(a) Arapaho.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Crow.
(d) Chippewa.

4. At age ten, Custer went to live with his half-sister and her new husband who lived in __________.
(a) Boston, Massachusettes.
(b) Yorktown, Indiana.
(c) Monroe, Michigan.
(d) Columbus, Ohio.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was so pleased with Custer's decision to attend West Point that he gave him $200 for expenses?

2. Who was the half-French, half-Iowa interpreter used by the soldiers at Fort Laramie in Chapter 4?

3. Whose life was more controlled by time, according to Chapter 7?

4. Who led the Bad Faces band of Oglalas in Chapter 3?

5. How did Custer spend his teenager years according to Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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