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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 did Crazy Horse "do for a living" according to Chapter 8?
(a) Trade.
(b) Serve as a chief.
(c) Hunt.
(d) Make war.
2. In Chapter12, how many times a year might Crazy Horse go on a buffalo hunt?
(a) As many as possible.
(b) Two or three.
(c) One.
(d) Five or six.
3. At what ages did Custer and Crazy Horse become recognized leaders?
(a) 29 and 30.
(b) 24 and 25.
(c) 22 and 23.
(d) 23 and 24.
4. Who said, "General Custer is writing lasting letters on the pages of his country's history"?
(a) General Grant.
(b) President Lincoln.
(c) Speaker of the House Colfax.
(d) Secretary of War Stanton.
5. Who led the attack on Black Kettle's band of Cheyenne at Sand Creek in 1864?
(a) General Evans.
(b) Colonel Collins.
(c) Colonel Chivington.
(d) Captain Custer.
Short Answer Questions
1. At what age did most Sioux boys participate in their first tribal hunt?
2. In Chapter 11, who on Custer's household staff took care of the horses?
3. What year was George Armstrong Custer born?
4. What was the last major tribe pushed onto the Plains by military defeats with other tribes?
5. Where did "Custer get a decent return on the investment of his men's lives"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Custer turned down for a command of a new Michigan cavalry regiment?
2. Describe the plunder that George Bent reports he sees in an Indian camp as the Sioux and Cheyenne attack settlements along the Platte River.
3. Chapter 2 speaks of the 19th century attitude of "getting rid of it." What does this refer to?
4. What were some of Crazy Horse's idiosyncracies as . noted before he went into battle?
5. How are Crazy Horse and Custer viewed during their late teens?
6. What was the demerit policy of West Point when Custer attended? How many demerits did he regularly receive?
7. Explain George Armstrong Custer's birth order.
8. Describe Curly's first human kill.
9. What did Crazy Horse and Custer think of alcohol?
10. According to the author, what led Curly to seek a vision in Chapter 4?
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