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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. According to the author, who has written the definitive biography of George Custer?

2. What is Pennsylvania Dutch?

3. The Black Hills were known to the Sioux as a holy place called ______________.

4. Who said, "General Custer is writing lasting letters on the pages of his country's history"?

5. Who did Crazy Horse fall in love with around the time he turned twenty-one years old?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Explain George Armstrong Custer's birth order.

7. Describe the plunder that George Bent reports he sees in an Indian camp as the Sioux and Cheyenne attack settlements along the Platte River.

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

9. Describe Curly's first human kill.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

At the Battle at Rosebud, Crazy Horse tells his men, "It's a good day to die." This phrase has often been repeated by others. What do you think Crazy Horse meant? Are there other possible meanings?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways are the language and ideas in "Crazy Horse and Custer," originally published in 1975, dated? Look particularly at words used in discussing both Native and African Americans.

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