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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. In 1868 the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho, and Comanche are ordered to do what?
(a) Return to a reservation
(b) Move to Canada
(c) Surrender at Fort Laramie
(d) Surrender at Fort Cobb

2. Cochise is a chief for what tribe?
(a) Arapaho
(b) Nez Perce
(c) Santee Sioux
(d) Chiracahua Apache

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

4. When Cochise falls deathly ill, who tries to save him?
(a) A US Army Surgeon
(b) A Mormon missionary
(c) A Doctor from Reno, Nevada
(d) An Apache medicine man

5. Who is sent to deal with the Kiowa Indians who are not obeying the orders given them?
(a) General Hancock
(b) General Sherman
(c) General Custer
(d) General Hood

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose comment became the famous phrase, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?

2. Cochise's tribe is allowed to go live in what area?

3. Who does Roman Nose specifically refuse to meet with?

4. In 1871 what Apache chief is killed?

5. How does Chief Santana die?

(see the answer key)

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