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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Chief council.
(b) Akicita society.
(c) Shirt-wearers.
(d) Big Bellies.

3. What is the WPPA?
(a) West Point Provincial Academy.
(b) West Point Protocol Association.
(c) West Point Protestant Academy.
(d) West Point Protective Association.

4. According to a letter Custer wrote to his sister, what percentage of students at West Point failed?
(a) Thirty-five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Fifty.

5. Approximately how many men served under Custer at Gettysburg?
(a) 1,700.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 4,800.
(d) 2,000.

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

7. Who did Custer vote for in the 1864 election for president?
(a) Grant.
(b) It's unknown.
(c) McClellan.
(d) Lincoln.

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

9. At age ten, Custer went to live with his half-sister and her new husband who lived in __________.
(a) Yorktown, Indiana.
(b) Columbus, Ohio.
(c) Monroe, Michigan.
(d) Boston, Massachusettes.

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

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

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

13. In Chapter 7, what was constricting in Custer's life?
(a) Expectations.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Customs.
(d) Religion.

14. Between Custer and Crazy Horse, who came from a modest background, according to Chapter 12?
(a) Custer.
(b) Neither man.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Both men.

15. In Chapter12, how many times a year might Crazy Horse go on a buffalo hunt?
(a) As many as possible.
(b) Five or six.
(c) One.
(d) Two or three.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, who says, "it looks like treason" about a document?

2. On the expedition against the whites on the Plains in June 1865, who led the Cheyenne?

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

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

5. Who says, "Crazy Horse always led his men himself when they went into battle, and he kept well in front of them"?

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