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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 color were Custer's eyes?
(a) Brown.
(b) Gray.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

2. What old friend did Custer persuade General Pleasonton to give him as as aide?
(a) Lieutenant Yates.
(b) Sargent Sherwood.
(c) Tom Custer.
(d) Captain Holmes.

3. What was the last major tribe pushed onto the Plains by military defeats with other tribes?
(a) Arapaho.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Crow.
(d) Chippewa.

4. Who did Custer become an aide to in 1863?
(a) General Joseph Hooker.
(b) John Pelham.
(c) Brigadier General Alfred Pleasonton.
(d) President Lincoln.

5. Who does the author credit with giving Custer his first big break in Chapter 10?
(a) General McClellan.
(b) General Lee.
(c) General Burnside.
(d) General Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was George Armstrong Custer born?

2. How many Native Americans made up the decoy party after camping on July 24, 1865?

3. What animal slept with Custer at night in Chapter 11?

4. How much did the leather cap that West Point cadets were required to wear weigh?

5. What was Custer's first nickname at West Point?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the chiefs' society that resumed in 1865 involve and what was Crazy Horse's role?

3. What religion did the Custer family practice, and where did they worship?

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

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

6. What differences did General McClellan have against the Lincoln administration?

7. Who is Francis Parkman, and why is he significant in the beginning chapters?

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

9. What were the results of Custer's leadership on the Wilderness campaign of May, 1864?

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

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