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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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) Red Feather, He Dog, and Little Hawk.
(d) Crazy Horse, Hump, and Good Weasel.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What did Sitting Bull do with much of the money earned at Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?
(a) Spent it on horses.
(b) Sent it to his family.
(c) Gave it to poor children.
(d) Bought things with it.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many troops did Custer have at Little Bighorn?

2. In 1867, a Missouri senator complains about the Indian wars costing the government at least how much daily?

3. What political party did Custer officially endorse in 1866?

4. At the Battle of Washita, what tune did Custer have the band play?

5. 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?

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