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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Pennsylvania Dutch?
2. Who said to give the Indian "a love for exclusive property"?
3. In what year was George Armstrong Custer born?
4. In 1865, the Oglala resurrected a system of government that acted as a chief's society. The seven men over forty who served were called what?
5. Who did Custer vote for in the 1864 election for president?
Short Essay Questions
1. What charm did Crazy Horse receive in 1862 or 1863 and from whom? What was the charm supposed to do?
2. How are Crazy Horse and Custer viewed during their late teens?
3. What did the chiefs' society that resumed in 1865 involve and what was Crazy Horse's role?
4. What were the results of Custer's leadership on the Wilderness campaign of May, 1864?
5. Describe the plunder that George Bent reports he sees in an Indian camp as the Sioux and Cheyenne attack settlements along the Platte River.
6. Who is Francis Parkman, and why is he significant in the beginning chapters?
7. What religion did the Custer family practice, and where did they worship?
8. Why do men and animals congregate in the tree groves on the Great Plains in Chapter 1?
9. What differences did General McClellan have against the Lincoln administration?
10. Who is Custer's first love, and how does he know her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose the man, Crazy Horse or Custer, whom you most admire most after reading this book.Write an essay on why you admire this man, providing facts from the book to support your position.
Essay Topic 2
In "Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors," author Stephen Ambrose attempts to find parallels between two warriors in history. In your opinion, is Ambrose successful, or are the two men more different than Ambrose leads us to believe in the Introduction?
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think that the author chose to write about two very different men instead of a biography of a single man? In your opinion, does he do this successfully? Explain your answer.
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