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

2. The Arapahos scatter and join in with some Sioux Indians, their total number is about how many warriors?
(a) 400
(b) 1000
(c) 100
(d) 50

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

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The great Cheyennes warriors are called what?

2. How long does Little Crow's War last?

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

4. Red Cloud and Dull Knife do what with James Sawyers?

5. One of the Sioux's most famous warriors during the Powder River encounters goes by what name?

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