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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ohio's population in the 1800s is called a young population by the author. Why?
(a) White Americans had just moved to Ohio.
(b) 62 percent were under twenty-five.
(c) 73 percent were under thirty years of age.
(d) 55 percent were under twenty years of age.

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

4. Who does the author credit with giving Custer his first big break in Chapter 10?
(a) General Burnside.
(b) General Smith.
(c) General McClellan.
(d) General Lee.

5. How did Custer spend his teenager years according to Chapter 7?
(a) Playing practical jokes.
(b) Trying to do something and be somebody.
(c) Going to school.
(d) Competing against others.

6. Who led the attack on Black Kettle's band of Cheyenne at Sand Creek in 1864?
(a) Colonel Collins.
(b) Captain Custer.
(c) General Evans.
(d) Colonel Chivington.

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

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) Black Buffalo Woman.
(c) Sitting Bull's niece.
(d) Red Shawl Woman.

9. Who led the Bad Faces band of Oglalas in Chapter 3?
(a) Bad Bear.
(b) Crazy Horse, the father.
(c) Old Smoke.
(d) Red Cloud.

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

11. In 1854, who led four Brules in seeking revenge for Conquering Bear's death?
(a) Brave Bear.
(b) Spotted Tail.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Old Man Afraid.

12. What did Crazy Horse "do for a living" according to Chapter 8?
(a) Make war.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Trade.
(d) Serve as a chief.

13. Who went along with Crazy Horse on night time raids of the settlers in Chapter 9?
(a) Little Big Man.
(b) Hump.
(c) Young Man Afraid.
(d) He Dog.

14. What are the Lance Owners?
(a) Elders.
(b) A Sioux society.
(c) Cheyenne warriors.
(d) A tribal nickname.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Black Hills were known to the Sioux as a holy place called ______________.

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

3. 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?

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

5. In what year was George Armstrong Custer born?

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