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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 3 : Chapter 2, Custer & Crazy Horse both on the Plains.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What book led to Custer writing an essay titled, "The Red Man" while at West Point?
(a) Eutaw.
(b) Last of the Mohicans.
(c) Leatherstocking Tales.
(d) Swallow Barn.

3. Which railroad originated in California?
(a) Central Pacific.
(b) Union Pacific.
(c) California Pacific.
(d) Kansas Pacific.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 13, what was the first financial offer that the government made to Plains tribes?

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

4. What did Crazy Horse "do for a living" according to Chapter 8?

5. Where did "Custer get a decent return on the investment of his men's lives"?

(see the answer key)

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