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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 element of the weather do the Plains and the seashore share?
(a) Limited rainfall.
(b) Lack of snow.
(c) High wind velocity.
(d) Warm, muggy temperatures.

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

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

4. Who said, "General Custer is writing lasting letters on the pages of his country's history"?
(a) President Lincoln.
(b) Speaker of the House Colfax.
(c) Secretary of War Stanton.
(d) General Grant.

5. Between Custer and Crazy Horse, who came from a modest background, according to Chapter 12?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Neither man.
(c) Custer.
(d) Both men.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the time period of this book, what trees were common along streams on the Great Plains ?

2. How many times during their lives did Crazy Horse and Custer come in contact with each other?

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

4. According to Chapter 4, what was central to life for a Sioux male?

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

(see the answer key)

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