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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Roman Nose specifically refuse to meet with?
(a) General Custer
(b) General Taylor
(c) General Sherman
(d) General Sheridan

2. Who receives the credit for naming Native Americans "Indians?"
(a) Christopher Columbus
(b) Marco Polo
(c) Andrew Jackson
(d) John Cabot

3. What did the relocation of the Cherokee to Oklahoma become known as?
(a) Chisholm Trail
(b) Trail of Tears
(c) Sorrowful Trail
(d) Buncombe Turnpike

4. How many Indian nations comprised the Iroquios?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 7

5. 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

6. What did the chief who visited Lincoln receive as a gift?
(a) An American flag
(b) A musket
(c) A silver dollar
(d) Nothing

7. Some Cheyennes and Arapaho Indians move into what part of Kansas to hunt?
(a) Black Hills
(b) Powder River
(c) Smoky Hill
(d) Little Big Horn Mountain

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

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

10. What Navajo chief finally surrendered in 1866?
(a) Red Cloud
(b) Geronimo
(c) Manuelito
(d) Cochise

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

12. After his days in government, what does Donehogawa do?
(a) Moves out west to live with other indians
(b) Becomes as movie star
(c) Returns to the military
(d) Becomes wealthy as a New York businessman

13. Who was chief for the Ottawa tribe?
(a) Pontiac
(b) Crazy Horse
(c) Tecumseh
(d) Caddilac

14. What name did the Arapaho give to the attack of Connor's men on the Arapaho village that resulted in the slaughter of 50 Indians?
(a) The Massacre at Sand Creek
(b) The Battle of the Washita
(c) Battle of Tongue River that happened in the Moon when Geese shed their Feathers
(d) The Battle of the Powder River and the Little Big Horn Mountain

15. What fort do the Navajos attack in retaliation for troops destroying crops?
(a) The Alamo
(b) Fort Apache
(c) Fort Defiance
(d) Fort Sumpter

Short Answer Questions

1. Name the chief who said the following statement: "The Cheyennes do not break their word."

2. What famous chief was leading the Navaho nation in 1860?

3. Who are Red Cloud, Man Afraid of his Horses, and Dull Knife?

4. What government position does Donehogawa hold?

5. Where does the author, Dee Brown say the Indians learned their savage practices?

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