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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous scout gains the trust of the Navajo?
(a) Meriweather Lewis
(b) Kit Carson
(c) Bat Masterson
(d) Cochise

2. What did the chief who visited Lincoln receive as a gift?
(a) A silver dollar
(b) An American flag
(c) A musket
(d) Nothing

3. What is Manifest Destiny?
(a) The idea that the white man was destined to control from sea to shining sea
(b) The idea that Native Americans are the
(c) The idea that Native Americans would conquer the white man
(d) The idea that Mexico would one day be part of the US

4. The Navajo said of one white man, "his name reaches the sky." Who does this refer to?
(a) George Custer
(b) Kit Carson
(c) William Sherman
(d) William Sheridan

5. The Sioux chiefs are invited to a peace conference at what fort?
(a) Fort Wise
(b) Fort Connor
(c) Fort Laramie
(d) Fort Snelling

Short Answer Questions

1. What Navajo chief finally surrendered in 1866?

2. Where is Little Crow finally defeated?

3. What was located between the Pecos mountains and the Rio Grande?

4. Who declared that all land west of the Mississippi was Indian land?

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

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