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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

12. When do Custer and Crazy Horse first fight in the same battle?
(a) January, 1874.
(b) July, 1873.
(c) December, 1872.
(d) October, 1873.

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

14. Along what trail did the army plan to build a fort in 1866?
(a) Overland.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Bozeman.
(d) Santa Fe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sitting Bull do with much of the money earned at Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?

2. What Oglala enters Custer's camp soon after Custer arrives in Nebraska?

3. In Chapter 15, Custer ignores orders and camps at the Republican River because he is expecting Libbie to arrive at which fort?

4. Who blocked Custer's path on the north side of the river with approximately 1,500 Hunkpapas?

5. Which railroad originated in California?

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