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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Big Mouth, Big Ribs, Eagle Foot, Whirlwind, and Little Crow are Sioux Chiefs sent to talk other chiefs into doing what?
(a) Coming to Fort Laramie
(b) Surrendering to General Connor
(c) Moving to the reservation
(d) Moving on into Canada

2. The great Cheyennes warriors are called what?
(a) Ghost warriors
(b) Dog soldiers
(c) Friends of the Great Spirit
(d) Storm troopers

3. How is Manuelito cheated in this event?
(a) His foot trail is longer
(b) His gun sights are changed
(c) His dueling gun is jammed
(d) The horse reins are cut

4. Most of the remaining Cheyennes Indians are removed to an area along what river?
(a) Washita river
(b) Arkansas river
(c) Rio Grande river
(d) Colorado river

5. Cochise dies in what year?
(a) 1866
(b) 1896
(c) 1854
(d) 1874

6. What government position does Donehogawa hold?
(a) Commissioner of Indian Affairs
(b) Secretary of State
(c) Secretary of the Interior
(d) War Secretary

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

8. Where does Red Cloud deliver an address on Indian rights?
(a) Washington
(b) St. Louis
(c) New York City
(d) Chicago

9. When Cochise is imprisoned for something he did not do what is his reaction?
(a) He escapes and kills three white men
(b) He has no reaction
(c) He attacks the court judge
(d) He escapes and moves to Mexico

10. What causes the Santee Sioux to want to leave the reservation?
(a) They leave to attack other Indians
(b) they don't have enough food
(c) They want to go to their sacred grounds
(d) They leave to attack settlers

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

12. What is the name of the reservation where the Navajo are forced to live?
(a) Fort Defiance
(b) Bosque Redondo
(c) Qualla Indian Boundary
(d) Amarillo

13. Where does Red Cloud insist his people should be allowed to trade?
(a) Fort Wise
(b) Fort Laramie
(c) Fort Snelling
(d) Fort Connor

14. What Cheyennes warrior warns an Arapaho village of an impending attack by Connor's men?
(a) Standing Deer
(b) Dull Knife
(c) Little Horse
(d) Little Tree

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Fort where the Santee Sioux are kept until they are finally put on a reservation?

2. What does the term "Iron Horse" refer to?

3. Where are most of the warring Sioux at this time?

4. What US general declared war on the Navajo and Apache?

5. What event in January of 1863 causes Cochise to go back on the war path?

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