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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who kills Little Hawk?
(a) Shoshoni.
(b) Crow.
(c) A group of white miners.
(d) Soldiers.

2. What weapon was Crazy Horse carrying at Little Bighorn?
(a) Remington.
(b) Winchester.
(c) Axe.
(d) Bow and arrows.

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

4. Who remarks in Chapter 21 that Custer is going to be killed?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) Lieutenant Wallace.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Lieutenant Godfrey.

5. Which Native American scout remained with Custer as he first entered the Black Hills in 1874?
(a) Worm.
(b) Bloody Knife.
(c) Still Water.
(d) Medicine Bill.

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

7. Custer wrote to Libbie that the "Indians have a new name for me." What was it?
(a) Liar.
(b) Thief.
(c) Yellow Hair.
(d) Loud man.

8. What political party did Custer officially endorse in 1866?
(a) Democratic party.
(b) National Union party.
(c) Libertarian party.
(d) Republican party.

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

10. Who does Crazy Horse marry in 1872?
(a) Black Shawl.
(b) Red Feather.
(c) Black Buffalo Woman.
(d) Red Elk.

11. What do the Cheyenne call the battle at Rosebud?
(a) Crazy Horse's Revenge.
(b) Attack of the Crook.
(c) Where the Girl Saved Her Brother.
(d) Where the Crow and Shoshoni are Beat.

12. Who is Mark Kellogg?
(a) Custer's nephew.
(b) Custer's brother-in-law.
(c) Custer's second in command.
(d) News correspondent.

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

14. What bad news did Custer receive on January 31, 1866?
(a) He is to be court-martialed.
(b) He had been demoted to Captain.
(c) His first child has died during childbirth.
(d) His mother had died.

15. What did Medicine Arrow do to give Custer bad luck?
(a) Rode in a circle counterclockwise.
(b) Refused to smoke a pipe with him.
(c) Spit on Custer's boots.
(d) Poured ashes from a pipe onto Custer's boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had Reno's men on the run?

2. Why says in Chapter 18, "There are not many joyous people here"?

3. Who killed Captain Fetterman?

4. In Chapter 20, who makes the statement that if he were Indian, he would prefer to live on the open plains instead of a reservation?

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

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