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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 11, who on Custer's household staff took care of the horses?
(a) Johnnie Cisco.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Joseph Fought.
(d) Emerson.

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

4. According to the author, who has written the definitive biography of George Custer?
(a) Ken Burns.
(b) Carol Gluck.
(c) George Bent.
(d) Jay Monaghan.

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

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

7. How did Crazy Horse spend his teenage years according to Chapter 7?
(a) Observing white soldiers.
(b) Becoming a warrior.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Seeking a vision.

8. After what skirmish did Custer call the Civil War a "Glorious War"?
(a) Appomattox.
(b) Vicksburg.
(c) Rappahannock River.
(d) Fredericksburg.

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

10. What book led to Custer writing an essay titled, "The Red Man" while at West Point?
(a) Swallow Barn.
(b) Leatherstocking Tales.
(c) Eutaw.
(d) Last of the Mohicans.

11. What was Custer's first nickname at West Point?
(a) Curly.
(b) Fanny.
(c) Cinnamon.
(d) Crazy.

12. What did the Oglalas call the road that the settlers knew as "The Oregon Trail"?
(a) Laramie Trail.
(b) The Solder's Trail.
(c) The Holy Road.
(d) The White Man's Road.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 7, why is Custer's culture more productive than Crazy Horse's?

2. Whose life was more controlled by time, according to Chapter 7?

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

4. Who wrote to Custer, "...I had to weep for joy that the recollection was sweet in your memory"?

5. Approximately how many men served under Custer at Gettysburg?

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