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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Flight of the Nez Perces.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ultimately happens after the Navajo discover they have been cheated?
(a) Chief Manuelito's prize horse is butchered
(b) Chief Manuelito is hanged
(c) The soldiers kill all of the Navajo
(d) The soldiers run the Navajo out of the fort

2. Who led a private expedition into the Powder River region in 1865?
(a) John Clark
(b) John Bent
(c) Patrick Connor
(d) James Sawyers

3. Why is a treaty not signed at Fort Laramie?
(a) The indians learn about a road planned for Powder River
(b) The indians are tricked by General Sherman
(c) The indians are incited by a speech by Sitting Bull
(d) The indians are massacred in the fort

4. The Sioux warriors force the soldiers to retreat to what fort?
(a) Fort Defiance
(b) Fort Wise
(c) Fort Snelling
(d) Fort Connor

5. What event led to a widespread invasion of the West by white men?
(a) California Gold rush
(b) Oklahoma Claims
(c) Lewis and Clark Expedition
(d) Cattle Drives

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Kiowa's forced to do by the white soldiers?

2. News of what event angers Roman Nose?

3. The Wdewkantons, the Wahpetons, the Wahpekutes, and the Sissetons make up what Indian nation?

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

5. What did the relocation of the Cherokee to Oklahoma become known as?

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