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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. Whose brains splattered on Reno's face during fire?
(a) Bloody Knief.
(b) John Martini.
(c) Benteen.
(d) Lieutenant Clark.

2. What does the phrase, "to touch the pen" mean?
(a) To sign a treaty.
(b) To agree to negotiate a treaty.
(c) Lets the white government know that a tribe is interested in making a treaty.
(d) A chief touched a pen that was then used by a white man to write the chief's name.

3. Where did Red Cloud make what the author calls a "splendid" speech?
(a) Potomac River, Washington, D.C.
(b) Cooper Union, New York.
(c) World's Fair, Chicago.
(d) State Capitol, Omaha.

4. What did Medicine Arrow do to give Custer bad luck?
(a) Spit on Custer's boots.
(b) Refused to smoke a pipe with him.
(c) Poured ashes from a pipe onto Custer's boots.
(d) Rode in a circle counterclockwise.

5. Carrington read the Bible every morning in what languages?
(a) Latin or English.
(b) Greek or Hebrew.
(c) French or Greek.
(d) Spanish or Latin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was placed in charge of the Department of the Mississippi?

2. Who blocked Custer's path on the north side of the river with approximately 1,500 Hunkpapas?

3. Who shoots Crazy Horse in Chapter 17?

4. Who had Reno's men on the run?

5. Who was Custer to accompany on his first post-Civil War assignment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were agency Indians?

2. What change does becoming a father have on Crazy Horse?

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

4. Describe the Sun Dance held at Rosebud.

5. What was the real purpose of inviting Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and other Indian leaders to Washington in 1870?

6. What happened in 1840 when some Sioux brought yellow nuggets of gold to Father De Smet?

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

8. According to the author, what mistakes did Custer make at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

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

10. What is the "Panic of 1873"?

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