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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Mitch Bouyer?
(a) Half-blood Crow tracker.
(b) Army Lieutenant.
(c) Indian agent.
(d) Scout.

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

4. In 1868, approximately how many troops were stationed on the frontier?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 70,000.
(c) 55,000.
(d) 40,000.

5. One of the boys who listened to Crazy Horse tell stories became a famous holy man. Who was it?
(a) Geronimo.
(b) Black Kettle.
(c) Black Elk.
(d) Fool Crow.

6. What Oglala enters Custer's camp soon after Custer arrives in Nebraska?
(a) Young Man Afraid.
(b) Pawnee Killer.
(c) Spotted Tail.
(d) Red Cloud.

7. In Chapter 22, what did the occasional fisherman used for fish bait?
(a) Worms.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Buffalo fat.
(d) Grasshopper.

8. Who operated as the rear guard in the fight against the Shoshoni in Chapter 17?
(a) Hump, He Dog, and Crazy Horse.
(b) Crazy Horse, Hump, and Good Weasel.
(c) Red Feather, He Dog, and Little Hawk.
(d) Good Weasel, Little Hawk, and Red Feather.

9. What did Custer name as one of the chief pleasures he and Libbie enjoyed on the Plains?
(a) Visiting new places.
(b) Camping under the stars.
(c) Horseback riding.
(d) New commands.

10. Where was Custer's version of the Reno scouting expedition published?
(a) Chicago Times.
(b) Boston Globe.
(c) St. Louis Dispatch.
(d) New York Herald.

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

12. Who killed Captain Fetterman?
(a) Fetterman killed himself.
(b) Hump.
(c) Captain Brown.
(d) Crazy Horse.

13. Who is Medicine Bill?
(a) A trader.
(b) A scout.
(c) A hunter.
(d) A warrior.

14. 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) Bought things with it.
(c) Sent it to his family.
(d) Spent it on horses.

15. When E.B. Taylor met with Red Cloud, what did he raise the annual annuities to?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $60,000.
(c) $100,000.
(d) $75,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first banking house to fail in 1873?

2. What position is Custer offered in Chapter 14 that pays $10,000 a year?

3. Who has Custer arrested on the Yellowstone campaign?

4. How many troops did Custer have at Little Bighorn?

5. According to Chapter 13, what was the first financial offer that the government made to Plains tribes?

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