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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What could happen to a Union soldier who did not do his duty in combat?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Sentenced to a year of hard labor.
(c) Court-martial.
(d) Branded with the letter 'C' for coward.

2. Who did Custer vote for in the 1864 election for president?
(a) Grant.
(b) McClellan.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) It's unknown.

3. During the time period of this book, what trees were common along streams on the Great Plains ?
(a) Pines.
(b) Juniper.
(c) Cottonwoods.
(d) Elms.

4. Who did Crazy Horse fall in love with around the time he turned twenty-one years old?
(a) Sitting Bull's niece.
(b) Red Shawl Woman.
(c) Daughter of Old-Man-Afraid-of-his-Horses.
(d) Black Buffalo Woman.

5. How many Sioux were estimated to be at the great council at Bear Butte in Chapter 4?
(a) 3000 to 4500.
(b) 1000 to 2500.
(c) Less than a thousand.
(d) 5000 to 7500.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Custer enter West Point Military Academy?

2. What is Pennsylvania Dutch?

3. What year was George Armstrong Custer born?

4. Who wrote to Custer, "...I had to weep for joy that the recollection was sweet in your memory"?

5. Who is George Bent?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happened when Custer and his wife left for the Wilderness Campaign.

2. What type of furniture did Custer have at West Point?

3. Why do men and animals congregate in the tree groves on the Great Plains in Chapter 1?

4. What did Crazy Horse and Custer think of alcohol?

5. How did Colonel Chivington set up the events of the Sand Creek Massacre?

6. What is a kola and who was the kola of Curly?

7. What were some of Crazy Horse's idiosyncracies as . noted before he went into battle?

8. Who is Custer's first love, and how does he know her?

9. What did De Crevecoeur have in mind when he wrote, "The American is a new man who acts on new principles"?

10. Custer only took one leave from West Point. When and where did he go?

(see the answer keys)

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