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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. Who reported buffalo "as far as the eye could reach the country seemed blackened by innumerable herds"?
(a) Francis Parkman.
(b) Captain Benjamin Bonneville.
(c) The father of Crazy Horse.
(d) George Armstrong Custer.

2. Who kills Little Hawk?
(a) Crow.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Shoshoni.
(d) A group of white miners.

3. In Chapter 10, who says, "it looks like treason" about a document?
(a) General Smith.
(b) General McClellan.
(c) Captain Custer.
(d) Fernando Wood.

4. Who said "fighting for fun is rare"?
(a) Colonel Theodore Lyman.
(b) General Grant.
(c) General Custer.
(d) General Horace Porter.

5. What was the most important subject at West Point when Custer attended?
(a) Math.
(b) Military strategy.
(c) Oration.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what wars are cited as wars that Custer taught about?

2. What was Carrington's Achilles' heel?

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

4. In what year was George Armstrong Custer born?

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

(see the answer key)

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