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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Part 4 : Chapter 3, The Finale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was placed in charge of the Department of the Mississippi?
(a) Major General Sherman.
(b) General Tecumseh.
(c) Colonel Taylor.
(d) Colonel Carrington.

2. In 1867, a Missouri senator complains about the Indian wars costing the government at least how much daily?
(a) $250,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $100,000.
(d) $150,000.

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

4. What does the phrase, "to touch the pen" mean?
(a) Lets the white government know that a tribe is interested in making a treaty.
(b) To sign a treaty.
(c) To agree to negotiate a treaty.
(d) A chief touched a pen that was then used by a white man to write the chief's name.

5. In what year was George Armstrong Custer born?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1838.

Short Answer Questions

1. When E.B. Taylor met with Red Cloud, what did he raise the annual annuities to?

2. According to a letter Custer wrote to his sister, what percentage of students at West Point failed?

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

4. How many Native Americans made up the decoy party after camping on July 24, 1865?

5. Which regiment stages a mutiny against Custer in Texas?

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