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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. In Chapter 17, who is quoted as saying, "We were up against it from the start"?
(a) Custer.
(b) Crazy Horse.
(c) Hump.
(d) Little Hawk.

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

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

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

5. Who was Custer to accompany on his first post-Civil War assignment?
(a) General Grant.
(b) General Sherman.
(c) General Kirby-Smith.
(d) General Sheridan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who killed Captain Fetterman?

2. What more than tripled in Ohio from 1828 to 1850?

3. What is the WPPA?

4. In Chapter 3, what aspect of Sioux life would Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, have called the "science of the concrete"?

5. In Chapter 8, where are the Shoshonis hunting before the Oglala and Cheyenne raid?

(see the answer key)

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