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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The War to Save the Buffalo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name did the Arapaho give to the attack of Connor's men on the Arapaho village that resulted in the slaughter of 50 Indians?
(a) The Battle of the Powder River and the Little Big Horn Mountain
(b) The Massacre at Sand Creek
(c) The Battle of the Washita
(d) Battle of Tongue River that happened in the Moon when Geese shed their Feathers

2. The chiefs are asked to come and meet with yet another white general to talk about peace, who is this person?
(a) William Tecumseh Sherman
(b) William Henry Harrison
(c) George Armstrong Custer
(d) Winfield Scott Hancock

3. What event in January of 1863 causes Cochise to go back on the war path?
(a) He is recaptured and imprisoned
(b) The murder of his wife
(c) He is lied to at a treaty conference
(d) The capture and death of Mangus Colorado

4. Who led a private expedition into the Powder River region in 1865?
(a) Patrick Connor
(b) James Sawyers
(c) John Clark
(d) John Bent

5. When Roman Nose refuses to return to talk to Hancock what does Hancock do?
(a) Declares war on all indians
(b) Atttacks unsuspecting villages
(c) Hangs several chiefs
(d) Goes back to Washington

Short Answer Questions

1. When Santana and Big Tree are arrested who negotiates their release?

2. Who absolves many of the Santee Sioux of their war crimes?

3. Roman Nose gets upset with a woman preparing his food because she does what?

4. Cochise's tribe is offered protection at what fort?

5. What did the chief who visited Lincoln receive as a gift?

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