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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. Why did more federal troops come to the Colorado area in the mid to late 1860s?
(a) To open up more forts
(b) To build a railroad
(c) To hunt for Confederate soldiers
(d) To hunt down renegade indians

2. What do the white men call these 5 Sioux chiefs?
(a) The Friends of Lincoln
(b) The Laramie Loafers
(c) The Sand Creek survivors
(d) The Outlaws of Cheyenne

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

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

5. Where does the author, Dee Brown say the Indians learned their savage practices?
(a) From Spanish explorers
(b) From tribes to the north
(c) From English settlers
(d) Ffrom the white soldiers

Short Answer Questions

1. What white man tries to get these Indians to sign a peace treaty?

2. What fort is involved in Little Crow's War?

3. What is the name of a new road through Red Cloud's country?

4. Where does Roman Nose die?

5. One of the leaders of the Sioux warriors is a Hunkpapa chief named what?

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