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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. How long does Red Cloud's war last?
(a) About 10 years
(b) About 2 years
(c) About 6 months
(d) About 1 month

2. What Indian chief leads a raid that ends in killings at Fort Richardson?
(a) Big Tree
(b) Kicking Bird
(c) Santana
(d) Lone Wolf

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

4. What was the name by which many Indian tribes called Andrew Jackson?
(a) Long Hair
(b) Sharp Knife
(c) Old Hickory
(d) Gray Ghost

5. Donehogawa's "Christian name"?
(a) John Michael Smith
(b) Ely Samuel Parker
(c) Brigham Young
(d) William Tecumseh Sherman

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the remaining Cheyennes Indians are removed to an area along what river?

2. Where does Red Cloud insist his people should be allowed to trade?

3. Where was Kintpuash's tribe moved to by the US government?

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

5. The Navajo said of one white man, "his name reaches the sky." Who does this refer to?

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