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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did more federal troops come to the Colorado area in the mid to late 1860s?
(a) To build a railroad
(b) To hunt for Confederate soldiers
(c) To open up more forts
(d) To hunt down renegade indians

5. Whose comment became the famous phrase, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?
(a) General Sheridan
(b) General Custer
(c) General Hancock
(d) General Sherman

6. What large group of Indians lived about a thousand miles north of the Navajo?
(a) The Santee Sioux
(b) The Comanche
(c) The Cheyenne
(d) the Ute

7. 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) Chief Manuelito's prize horse is butchered
(d) The soldiers kill all of the Navajo

8. Despite the warning, Connor's men are able to kill about how many indians?
(a) 400
(b) 100
(c) 50
(d) 10

9. In 1865 the US government sends what group to the Missouri river basin?
(a) General Sherman's army
(b) New soldiers fresh from the Civil War
(c) A peace commission
(d) A congressional task force

10. Cochise's tribe is allowed to go live in what area?
(a) Death Valley
(b) The Grand Canyon
(c) The Chiracahua Mountains
(d) The Rio Grande basin

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

12. When Roman Nose refuses to return to talk to Hancock what does Hancock do?
(a) Declares war on all indians
(b) Atttacks unsuspecting villages
(c) Goes back to Washington
(d) Hangs several chiefs

13. Who went to visit Abraham Lincoln in Washington?
(a) Little Crow
(b) Red Cloud
(c) Sitting Bull
(d) Crazy Horse

14. Which warrior refuses to attend thus stopping the talks?
(a) Roman Nose
(b) Red Cloud
(c) Dull Knife
(d) Man Afraid of his Horses

15. In 1865 what US General was preparing a new military initiative against the Indians near the Black Hills?
(a) General Custer
(b) General Sherman
(c) General Connor
(d) General Sheridan

Short Answer Questions

1. What government position does Donehogawa hold?

2. Big Mouth, Big Ribs, Eagle Foot, Whirlwind, and Little Crow are Sioux Chiefs sent to talk other chiefs into doing what?

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

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

5. Where does Red Cloud deliver an address on Indian rights?

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