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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What became a distinguishing mark of the 3rd Cavalry Division?
(a) Top boots.
(b) Five gold loops on each sleeve.
(c) Soft hat.
(d) A red tie.

2. What year was George Armstrong Custer born?
(a) 1838.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1839.

3. What position was Custer serving in when he was arrested and court-martial proceedings were started against him?
(a) Officer of the Day.
(b) Officer of the Guard.
(c) First Cadet.
(d) Commandant of the Cadets.

4. What event occurred on February 9, 1864?
(a) Custer left for the frontier.
(b) Custer became a general.
(c) Custer married Libbie.
(d) Custer's father died.

5. How many Sioux were estimated to be at the great council at Bear Butte in Chapter 4?
(a) 3000 to 4500.
(b) Less than a thousand.
(c) 1000 to 2500.
(d) 5000 to 7500.

6. Who did Custer meet on Thanksgiving evening in 1862?
(a) Fanny Fifield.
(b) Issac Christiancy.
(c) Elizabeth Bacon.
(d) Mary Holland.

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

8. Who did Crazy Horse fall in love with around the time he turned twenty-one years old?
(a) Daughter of Old-Man-Afraid-of-his-Horses.
(b) Red Shawl Woman.
(c) Sitting Bull's niece.
(d) Black Buffalo Woman.

9. What was the estimated number of buffalo on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century?
(a) 25 million.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 75 million.
(d) 2.5 million.

10. In Chapter 7, what wars are cited as wars that Custer taught about?
(a) French and American Revolutions.
(b) All European wars.
(c) Mexican and Peloponnesian.
(d) French and Indian War.

11. What political party did Custer belong to?
(a) Whig.
(b) Republican.
(c) Democrat.
(d) No answers are correct.

12. In 1854, who owned the trading house near Fort Laramie?
(a) John Grattan.
(b) Henry Hawk.
(c) Jim Bordeaux.
(d) Francis Parkman.

13. What could happen to a Union soldier who did not do his duty in combat?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Branded with the letter 'C' for coward.
(c) Court-martial.
(d) Sentenced to a year of hard labor.

14. What element of the weather do the Plains and the seashore share?
(a) Warm, muggy temperatures.
(b) Limited rainfall.
(c) Lack of snow.
(d) High wind velocity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1854, who led four Brules in seeking revenge for Conquering Bear's death?

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

3. Who is Washakie?

4. What old friend did Custer persuade General Pleasonton to give him as as aide?

5. In Chapter12, how many times a year might Crazy Horse go on a buffalo hunt?

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