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

2. According to Chapter 7, who of the book's subjects had seen combat by this time?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Custer.
(c) Neither Crazy Horse nor Custer.
(d) Both Crazy Horse and Custer.

3. Who led the attack on Black Kettle's band of Cheyenne at Sand Creek in 1864?
(a) Captain Custer.
(b) General Evans.
(c) Colonel Chivington.
(d) Colonel Collins.

4. Who did Crazy Horse fall in love with around the time he turned twenty-one years old?
(a) Red Shawl Woman.
(b) Sitting Bull's niece.
(c) Black Buffalo Woman.
(d) Daughter of Old-Man-Afraid-of-his-Horses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 7, why is Custer's culture more productive than Crazy Horse's?

2. Who is George Bent?

3. Of the 267 Union soldiers executed during the Civil War, how many were executed for desertion?

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

5. What animal slept with Custer at night in Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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