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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) Long Holy.
(b) White Bull.
(c) Gets-the-Best of-Them.
(d) Pleny Lice.

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

3. Why says in Chapter 18, "There are not many joyous people here"?
(a) Lieutenant Stanley.
(b) Tom Custer.
(c) Libbie Custer.
(d) Custer.

4. 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) Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
(d) Sitting Bull and Red Cloud.

5. Who is Mitch Bouyer?
(a) Army Lieutenant.
(b) Indian agent.
(c) Scout.
(d) Half-blood Crow tracker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What do Sioux call the Black Hills?
(a) Arikaras.
(b) Holy Hills.
(c) Pa Sapa.
(d) Santee.

14. What river takes the Custer party to Alexandria?
(a) Canadian River.
(b) Red River.
(c) Ohio River.
(d) Mississippi River.

15. What did Custer have his photo taken with in the Black Hills?
(a) Band of Oglalas with the Red Cloud Agency.
(b) Grizzly bear.
(c) Two elk.
(d) Inyan Kara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Custer to accompany on his first post-Civil War assignment?

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

3. Who has Custer arrested on the Yellowstone campaign?

4. Where was the 1868 treaty signed?

5. Where did Red Cloud make what the author calls a "splendid" speech?

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