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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of a new road through Red Cloud's country?
(a) Bozeman road
(b) Donnor trail
(c) Buncombe Turnpike
(d) Chishom trail

2. The Wdewkantons, the Wahpetons, the Wahpekutes, and the Sissetons make up what Indian nation?
(a) the Apache
(b) The Navajo
(c) The Santee Sioux
(d) The Comanche

3. What white man tries to help the Cheyennes end their conflict with the soldiers?
(a) William Sherman
(b) John Bent
(c) Kit Carson
(d) George Custer

4. How long does Little Crow's War last?
(a) 1 year
(b) 1 month
(c) 6 months
(d) 1 week

5. Where does Roman Nose die?
(a) Arikaree Valley
(b) Powder River
(c) Washita River
(d) Little Big Horn River

6. After a treaty meeting between US soldiers and Cheyennes chief's this man said, " I felt myself in the presence of superior beings:"
(a) Major Wynkoop
(b) Chief Lean Bear
(c) General Sheridan
(d) Chief One Eye

7. What is the most infamous battle of Red Cloud's war?
(a) The Connor massacre
(b) The Washita massacre
(c) The Donnor massacre
(d) The Fetterman massacre

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

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

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

11. Roman Nose gets upset with a woman preparing his food because she does what?
(a) Fails to use wild buffalo
(b) Uses a metal spoon
(c) Uses white man's food
(d) Makes the food too hot

12. Cochise finally reaches an agreement with what US General?
(a) General Hood
(b) General Taylor
(c) General Wise
(d) General Howard

13. When the white men first appeared what was Cochise's attitude?
(a) He tried to live at peace
(b) He immediately tried to drive them away
(c) He ran into the hill country
(d) He moved south to Mexico

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) Battle of Tongue River that happened in the Moon when Geese shed their Feathers
(b) The Battle of the Powder River and the Little Big Horn Mountain
(c) The Massacre at Sand Creek
(d) The Battle of the Washita

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was chief of the Wdewkantons?

2. What large group of Indians lived about a thousand miles north of the Navajo?

3. Whose comment became the famous phrase, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?

4. In 1865 the US government sends what group to the Missouri river basin?

5. What event does Manuelito challenge a US officer to compete in?

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