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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 was located between the Pecos mountains and the Rio Grande?
(a) Bosque Redondo
(b) Wounded Knee
(c) Washita
(d) The Little Big Horn

2. When Santana and Big Tree are arrested who negotiates their release?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Lone Wolf
(c) Red Cloud
(d) Kicking Bird

3. What event brought in an unexpected influx of white men to Colorado in 1858?
(a) Pike's Peak gold rush
(b) Buffalo hunting
(c) California gold rush
(d) Opening the Denver mint

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

5. Cochise is a chief for what tribe?
(a) Santee Sioux
(b) Arapaho
(c) Chiracahua Apache
(d) Nez Perce

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the Apache have moved to reservations or have left Arizona by what year?

2. What famous scout gains the trust of the Navajo?

3. How does Chief Santana die?

4. What does Captain Jack agree to do to officer Canby if he will not agree to allow the Modoc to return to their homelands?

5. The Kiowas and Comanches go to what state to kill whites?

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