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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. In Chapter 10, who says, "it looks like treason" about a document?

2. Who did Custer become an aide to in 1863?

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

4. In Chapter 10, who writes, "I captured the greatest prize of all"?

5. How did Crazy Horse spend his teenage years according to Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Custer turned down for a command of a new Michigan cavalry regiment?

2. According to the author, what led Curly to seek a vision in Chapter 4?

3. What type of furniture did Custer have at West Point?

4. Why do men and animals congregate in the tree groves on the Great Plains in Chapter 1?

5. Who is Custer's first love, and how does he know her?

6. What did the chiefs' society that resumed in 1865 involve and what was Crazy Horse's role?

7. Describe what happened when Custer and his wife left for the Wilderness Campaign.

8. Who is Francis Parkman, and why is he significant in the beginning chapters?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Ambrose says that Sherman put "a joker in the deck" of the 1869 Treaty. He calls that joker civilization. Write an essay about what the treaty required of the Sioux relating to civilization. Why does the author refer to this as a "joker"?

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