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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. Some Cheyennes and Arapaho Indians move into what part of Kansas to hunt?
(a) Smoky Hill
(b) Powder River
(c) Little Big Horn Mountain
(d) Black Hills

2. What is the result of Hancock's actions?
(a) He is killed
(b) He is courtmartialed
(c) He is promoted
(d) He is removed from his command

3. Why do the Sioux move into the Black Hills?
(a) The antelope and buffalo are more numerous
(b) They follow the soldiers into the Black Hills
(c) There are more white settlers to kill
(d) They are trying to get to Canada

4. Cochise dies in what year?
(a) 1896
(b) 1866
(c) 1874
(d) 1854

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the Apache have moved to reservations or have left Arizona by what year?

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

3. Which warrior refuses to attend thus stopping the talks?

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

5. What Indian chief leads a raid that ends in killings at Fort Richardson?

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