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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What ultimately happens after the Navajo discover they have been cheated?
(a) The soldiers run the Navajo out of the fort
(b) Chief Manuelito is hanged
(c) The soldiers kill all of the Navajo
(d) Chief Manuelito's prize horse is butchered

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

4. One of the Sioux's most famous warriors during the Powder River encounters goes by what name?
(a) Captain Jack
(b) Little Horse
(c) Chief Joseph
(d) Roman Nose

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

6. In 1868 what does Red Cloud do?
(a) Moves into Canada
(b) Attacks Fort Laramie
(c) Agrees to a peace treaty
(d) Leaves the Powder River territory

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

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

9. What Cheyennes chief tries to negotiate a truce in the increasing conflict?
(a) Crazy Horse
(b) Black Kettle
(c) Lean Bear
(d) Sitting Bull

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

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

12. What does the term "Iron Horse" refer to?
(a) The tenacity of the indians
(b) The train
(c) President Grant
(d) Nez Perce ponies

13. One character is chapter has a name which means "Keeper of the Western Door of the Long House of the Iroquois." Who is this?
(a) Ely Parker
(b) William Sherman
(c) US Grant
(d) Winfield Scott

14. Which tribe listed below was not living in the Southeast region of the US when their land was taken?
(a) Creek
(b) Seminole
(c) Chickasaw
(d) Iroquois

15. Who are Red Cloud, Man Afraid of his Horses, and Dull Knife?
(a) Sitting Bull's most famous followers
(b) Three prominant Sioux warrior chiefs
(c) Three surviving Arapaho chiefs
(d) Three chiefs who betray the Sioux nation

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which warrior refuses to attend thus stopping the talks?

3. Why do the Sioux move into the Black Hills?

4. The Wdewkantons, the Wahpetons, the Wahpekutes, and the Sissetons make up what Indian nation?

5. Why did more federal troops come to the Colorado area in the mid to late 1860s?

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