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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. Who are Red Cloud, Man Afraid of his Horses, and Dull Knife?
(a) Three prominant Sioux warrior chiefs
(b) Three chiefs who betray the Sioux nation
(c) Sitting Bull's most famous followers
(d) Three surviving Arapaho chiefs

2. What declaration did Colorado's governor, John Evans make?
(a) It was illegal for any indian to kill any white man
(b) It was illegal for any indian to reside in Colorado
(c) It was legal for any white man to kill any hostile indian
(d) It was legal for any soldier to kill any indian

3. Where are most of the warring Sioux at this time?
(a) Along the Powder river
(b) Along the Colorado river
(c) Along the Mississippi river
(d) Along the Arkansas river

4. Where is Little Crow finally defeated?
(a) The Yellow Medicine River
(b) The Washita River
(c) The Little Big Horn River
(d) The Rio Grande River

5. Whose comment became the famous phrase, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?
(a) General Custer
(b) General Sherman
(c) General Sheridan
(d) General Hancock

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Roman Nose die?

2. Some Cheyennes and Arapaho Indians move into what part of Kansas to hunt?

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

4. Who was chief for the Ottawa tribe?

5. The chiefs are asked to come and meet with yet another white general to talk about peace, who is this person?

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