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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 20, who makes the statement that if he were Indian, he would prefer to live on the open plains instead of a reservation?
(a) Custer.
(b) Sherman.
(c) McClellands.
(d) Stuart.

3. Carrington read the Bible every morning in what languages?
(a) Greek or Hebrew.
(b) French or Greek.
(c) Spanish or Latin.
(d) Latin or English.

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

5. Where was Custer's new regiment, the 7th Cavalry, assigned to in 1867?
(a) Fort Hays.
(b) Fort Dodge.
(c) Fort Riley.
(d) Fort Leavenworth.

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

7. What was the Army's station from their fight at Little Bighorn and where Custer planned for them to return to after the battle?
(a) Fort Omaha.
(b) Fort Laramie.
(c) Fort MacArthur.
(d) Fort Abraham Lincoln.

8. What book is Custer reading in Chapter 19?
(a) Major Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution.
(b) Final Campaigns of the Civil War.
(c) History of the War in the Peninsula.
(d) Memoirs of Ulysses Grant.

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

10. Who operated as the rear guard in the fight against the Shoshoni in Chapter 17?
(a) Good Weasel, Little Hawk, and Red Feather.
(b) Red Feather, He Dog, and Little Hawk.
(c) Hump, He Dog, and Crazy Horse.
(d) Crazy Horse, Hump, and Good Weasel.

11. What did Custer name as one of the chief pleasures he and Libbie enjoyed on the Plains?
(a) Visiting new places.
(b) Horseback riding.
(c) Camping under the stars.
(d) New commands.

12. What is Crazy Horse's daughter called?
(a) White Petal.
(b) She-Who-Yells.
(c) They-Are-Afraid-of-Her.
(d) Smiles-a-Lot.

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

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

15. At the Battle of Washita, what tune did Custer have the band play?
(a) Taps.
(b) When the Saints Go Marching In.
(c) Revele.
(d) Garry Owen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon was Crazy Horse carrying at Little Bighorn?

2. Who has Custer arrested on the Yellowstone campaign?

3. How much would the extra cavalry offered by Terry have increased Custer's fighting strength?

4. What was the first banking house to fail in 1873?

5. What did Medicine Arrow do to give Custer bad luck?

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