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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many men of the 7th Cavalry did Custer march toward Little Bighorn?
(a) 820.
(b) 1000.
(c) 611.
(d) 735.

4. Who has Custer arrested on the Yellowstone campaign?
(a) Sherman.
(b) Grant.
(c) Lieutenant Stanley.
(d) Sheridan.

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

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

7. What was the first banking house to fail in 1873?
(a) George Bird Grinwell.
(b) Kansas Pacific
(c) Jay Cook.
(d) First American.

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. According to Chapter 13, what was the first financial offer that the government made to Plains tribes?
(a) $10,000 annuities.
(b) $15,000 annuities.
(c) $25,000 annuities.
(d) $20,000 annuities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which railroad originated in California?

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

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

4. In Chapter 17, who is quoted as saying, "We were up against it from the start"?

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

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