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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was mortally wounded from Custer's charge against the Confederates at Yellow Tavern?
(a) Wesley Merritt.
(b) Robert E. Lee.
(c) Jeb Stuart.
(d) Phil Sheridan.

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

3. Who says, "Crazy Horse always led his men himself when they went into battle, and he kept well in front of them"?
(a) Eleanor Hinman.
(b) Hump.
(c) He Dog.
(d) Bad Heart Bull.

4. According to Chapter 7, who of the book's subjects had seen combat by this time?
(a) Both Crazy Horse and Custer.
(b) Custer.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Neither Crazy Horse nor Custer.

5. In Chapter 8, where are the Shoshonis hunting before the Oglala and Cheyenne raid?
(a) Near Fort Laramie.
(b) Sweetwater River.
(c) Captive Butte.
(d) Bighorn River.

6. Who did Custer become an aide to in 1863?
(a) President Lincoln.
(b) General Joseph Hooker.
(c) Brigadier General Alfred Pleasonton.
(d) John Pelham.

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

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

9. Who is Washakie?
(a) Headman of the Shoshoni.
(b) Cheyenne warrior.
(c) Oglala warrior.
(d) Headman of the Crow.

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

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

12. Where did Crazy Horse and other warriors go to sing or boast of bravery?
(a) Chief's lodge.
(b) Arrow Creek.
(c) Kiva.
(d) The akicita lodge.

13. Who said, "General Custer is writing lasting letters on the pages of his country's history"?
(a) Speaker of the House Colfax.
(b) General Grant.
(c) Secretary of War Stanton.
(d) President Lincoln.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At age ten, Custer went to live with his half-sister and her new husband who lived in __________.

3. How old was Custer when he graduated from the Academy and started his first paying job?

4. How much did the leather cap that West Point cadets were required to wear weigh?

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

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