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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Which regiment stages a mutiny against Custer in Texas?
(a) 1st Texas Cavalry.
(b) 4th Colorado Cavalry.
(c) 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry.
(d) 2nd Kansas Cavalry.

3. Who blocked Custer's path on the north side of the river with approximately 1,500 Hunkpapas?
(a) He Dog.
(b) Two Moons.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Gall.

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

5. According to Chapter 20, what two Sioux leaders were jealous of each other?
(a) Young Man Afraid and Old Man Afraid.
(b) Red Cloud and Spotted Tail.
(c) Sitting Bull and Red Cloud.
(d) Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.

6. Whose brains splattered on Reno's face during fire?
(a) Benteen.
(b) John Martini.
(c) Bloody Knief.
(d) Lieutenant Clark.

7. Who had Reno's men on the run?
(a) Gall.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Short Bull.

8. When did Custer leave for Fort McPherson?
(a) May, 1866.
(b) August, 1868.
(c) July, 1869.
(d) June, 1867.

9. Who was Custer to accompany on his first post-Civil War assignment?
(a) General Kirby-Smith.
(b) General Sheridan.
(c) General Grant.
(d) General Sherman.

10. Where did Crazy Horse mourn his daughter's death for three days and nights?
(a) Crow Country.
(b) Shoshoni country.
(c) Powder River.
(d) Black Hills.

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

12. What does the phrase, "to touch the pen" mean?
(a) A chief touched a pen that was then used by a white man to write the chief's name.
(b) To agree to negotiate a treaty.
(c) Lets the white government know that a tribe is interested in making a treaty.
(d) To sign a treaty.

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

14. In Chapter 17, who is quoted as saying, "We were up against it from the start"?
(a) Hump.
(b) Crazy Horse.
(c) Little Hawk.
(d) Custer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Along what trail did the army plan to build a fort in 1866?

2. Who shoots Crazy Horse in Chapter 17?

3. Who leads the charge at the Battle at Rosebud?

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

5. Which Native American scout remained with Custer as he first entered the Black Hills in 1874?

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