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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 animal slept with Custer at night in Chapter 11?
(a) Dog.
(b) Cat.
(c) Squirrel.
(d) Raccoon.

2. On the expedition against the whites on the Plains in June 1865, who led the Cheyenne?
(a) Spotted Tail.
(b) Black Elk.
(c) Black Wolf.
(d) Roman Nose.

3. What did Crazy Horse "do for a living" according to Chapter 8?
(a) Trade.
(b) Make war.
(c) Serve as a chief.
(d) Hunt.

4. Who says, "Crazy Horse always led his men himself when they went into battle, and he kept well in front of them"?
(a) He Dog.
(b) Eleanor Hinman.
(c) Bad Heart Bull.
(d) Hump.

5. What position was Custer serving in when he was arrested and court-martial proceedings were started against him?
(a) First Cadet.
(b) Officer of the Guard.
(c) Commandant of the Cadets.
(d) Officer of the Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What more than tripled in Ohio from 1828 to 1850?

2. Of the 267 Union soldiers executed during the Civil War, how many were executed for desertion?

3. During the time period of this book, what trees were common along streams on the Great Plains ?

4. How many times during their lives did Crazy Horse and Custer come in contact with each other?

5. In Chapter 3, what aspect of Sioux life would Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, have called the "science of the concrete"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Crazy Horse and Custer viewed during their late teens?

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

3. What charm did Crazy Horse receive in 1862 or 1863 and from whom? What was the charm supposed to do?

4. In Chapter 11, why does the author describe Custer as a romantic?

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 12, both men are described as finding the "rush of hot, fresh blood exciting." In what ways is this demonstrated?

10. In Chapter 3, why was Curly encouraged to look up to young warriors? In what way did he not?

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