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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. According to Chapter 4, what was central to life for a Sioux male?
(a) Vision quest.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Being a warrior.
(d) Making the first kill.

2. What was the last major tribe pushed onto the Plains by military defeats with other tribes?
(a) Arapaho.
(b) Chippewa.
(c) Sioux.
(d) Crow.

3. What did Medicine Arrow do to give Custer bad luck?
(a) Spit on Custer's boots.
(b) Poured ashes from a pipe onto Custer's boots.
(c) Refused to smoke a pipe with him.
(d) Rode in a circle counterclockwise.

4. What was Carrington's Achilles' heel?
(a) Need for wood.
(b) Poor commanding officers.
(c) Need for water.
(d) Horses.

5. In 1865, the Oglala resurrected a system of government that acted as a chief's society. The seven men over forty who served were called what?
(a) Shirt-wearers.
(b) Big Bellies.
(c) Chief council.
(d) Akicita society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Crazy Horse most likely not get the scalp of his first human kill?

2. Who led the Bad Faces band of Oglalas in Chapter 3?

3. Who had Reno's men on the run?

4. How did Crazy Horse spend his teenage years according to Chapter 7?

5. What year was George Armstrong Custer born?

(see the answer key)

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