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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Which railroad originated in California?
(a) Central Pacific.
(b) California Pacific.
(c) Union Pacific.
(d) Kansas Pacific.

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

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

9. How much would the extra cavalry offered by Terry have increased Custer's fighting strength?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Twenty percent.
(c) Forty percent.
(d) Thirty percent.

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

11. Who leads the charge at the Battle at Rosebud?
(a) General Custer.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) General Crook.
(d) Crazy Horse.

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 Laramie.
(b) Fort Leavenworth.
(c) Fort Wallace.
(d) Fort Sedgwick.

13. In Chapter 19, who is mentioned as being "drunk nearly all the time"?
(a) Charley Agard.
(b) Harry Reynolds.
(c) Gary Owen.
(d) Fred Grant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What book is Custer reading in Chapter 19?

2. In 1868, approximately how many troops were stationed on the frontier?

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

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

5. Where was the 1868 treaty signed?

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