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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 did Clark persuade to go and talk Crazy Horse into turning himself in?
(a) Spotted Tail.
(b) He Dog.
(c) Red Cloud.
(d) Sitting Bull.

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

3. Which regiment stages a mutiny against Custer in Texas?
(a) 2nd Kansas Cavalry.
(b) 1st Texas Cavalry.
(c) 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry.
(d) 4th Colorado Cavalry.

4. What is Pennsylvania Dutch?
(a) Dutch immigrants from the Rhineland.
(b) German immigrants from the Rhineland.
(c) Dutch immigrants who first settled in Pennsylvania.
(d) Dutch immigrants from Germany.

5. In Chapter 2, the author writes that Americans worked so much that work became ____________.
(a) The reason for living.
(b) A religion.
(c) A psychic need.
(d) A hobby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Custer have his photo taken with in the Black Hills?

2. Between Custer and Crazy Horse, who came from a modest background, according to Chapter 12?

3. What did the Oglalas call the road that the settlers knew as "The Oregon Trail"?

4. What was the estimated number of buffalo on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century?

5. Who are the "loafers" referred to in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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