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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 was Carrington's Achilles' heel?
(a) Need for wood.
(b) Poor commanding officers.
(c) Horses.
(d) Need for water.

2. Who leads the charge at the Battle at Rosebud?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) General Crook.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) General Custer.

3. Who has Custer arrested on the Yellowstone campaign?
(a) Lieutenant Stanley.
(b) Sherman.
(c) Sheridan.
(d) Grant.

4. Which Native American scout remained with Custer as he first entered the Black Hills in 1874?
(a) Worm.
(b) Still Water.
(c) Bloody Knife.
(d) Medicine Bill.

5. Along what trail did the army plan to build a fort in 1866?
(a) Santa Fe.
(b) Bozeman.
(c) Overland.
(d) Oregon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Custer have his photo taken with in the Black Hills?

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

3. What is Crazy Horse's daughter called?

4. Where was the 1868 treaty signed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. By the spring of 1866, what progress has been made on the railroads, and what are the future plans?

2. What route did Custer's party take to Texas?

3. In Chapter 21, the author relates that large numbers of Native Americans are leaving the agencies in 1875. There were "almost as many motives for going north as there were Indians making the trek." What are some of the reasons?

4. Why was Custer's desertion rate in Kansas so high?

5. Crazy Horse becomes a leader of a band of Sioux in Chapter 20. Explain what this means.

6. Why did Crazy Horse keep his feelings for Black Buffalo Woman secret?

7. What is the "Panic of 1873"?

8. Why is Custer bored in Chapter 17?

9. How does Sitting Bull describe Custer's death?

10. How does E.B. Taylor induce Indian leaders to sign treaties?

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