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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who kills Little Hawk?
(a) Crow.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Shoshoni.
(d) A group of white miners.

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

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

5. Where was the 1868 treaty signed?
(a) Fort Wallace.
(b) Fort McPherson.
(c) Fort Laramie.
(d) Oglala winter camp.

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

7. In what city did Custer and his wife have their portraits painted in Chapter 14?
(a) Houston.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Memphis.

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

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

10. Who had Reno's men on the run?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) Short Bull.
(c) Gall.
(d) Crazy Horse.

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When E.B. Taylor met with Red Cloud, what did he raise the annual annuities to?

2. What book is Custer reading in Chapter 19?

3. What was Carrington's Achilles' heel?

4. Who is Medicine Bill?

5. Where was Custer's new regiment, the 7th Cavalry, assigned to in 1867?

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