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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Carrington's Achilles' heel?
(a) Horses.
(b) Poor commanding officers.
(c) Need for water.
(d) Need for wood.

2. What was the title of Libbie's description of her and her husband's time at Fort Hays?
(a) Frontier Life for the Custers.
(b) Following the Guidon.
(c) Following the Indian Trail.
(d) Our Life at Fort Hays.

3. How many troops did Custer have at Little Bighorn?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

4. What did Sitting Bull do with much of the money earned at Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?
(a) Gave it to poor children.
(b) Sent it to his family.
(c) Bought things with it.
(d) Spent it on horses.

5. In Chapter 16, who says that he's ready for peace?
(a) Sherman.
(b) Red Cloud.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Custer.

6. What is Crazy Horse's daughter called?
(a) Smiles-a-Lot.
(b) They-Are-Afraid-of-Her.
(c) She-Who-Yells.
(d) White Petal.

7. Who shoots Crazy Horse in Chapter 17?
(a) Custer.
(b) No Water.
(c) Young Man Afraid.
(d) Caspar Collins.

8. What does Custer take a resolution to not do anymore in 1869?
(a) Stay away from Libbie.
(b) Drink.
(c) Gamble.
(d) Smoke.

9. Where did Red Cloud make what the author calls a "splendid" speech?
(a) World's Fair, Chicago.
(b) Potomac River, Washington, D.C.
(c) State Capitol, Omaha.
(d) Cooper Union, New York.

10. Who was placed in charge of the Department of the Mississippi?
(a) Colonel Carrington.
(b) General Tecumseh.
(c) Colonel Taylor.
(d) Major General Sherman.

11. According to Chapter 13, what was the first financial offer that the government made to Plains tribes?
(a) $20,000 annuities.
(b) $10,000 annuities.
(c) $25,000 annuities.
(d) $15,000 annuities.

12. In Chapter 15, Custer ignores orders and camps at the Republican River because he is expecting Libbie to arrive at which fort?
(a) Fort Sedgwick.
(b) Fort Leavenworth.
(c) Fort Laramie.
(d) Fort Wallace.

13. What was the first banking house to fail in 1873?
(a) George Bird Grinwell.
(b) First American.
(c) Kansas Pacific
(d) Jay Cook.

14. What is the highest hill at the northern end of the bluffs at Little Bighorn called today?
(a) Sioux Hill.
(b) Medicine Hill.
(c) Crazy Horse Hill.
(d) Custer Hill.

15. Who is the Miniconjou medicine man who has a strong vision in Chapter 18?
(a) Long Holy.
(b) Pleny Lice.
(c) Gets-the-Best of-Them.
(d) White Bull.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much would the extra cavalry offered by Terry have increased Custer's fighting strength?

2. Who is Medicine Bill?

3. Who is humiliated by the Crow at Rosebud?

4. Who was the Cheyenne leader at Little Bighorn?

5. In 1867, a Missouri senator complains about the Indian wars costing the government at least how much daily?

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