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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Big Snake?
(a) Standing Bear's Son
(b) Standing Bear's father
(c) Standing Bear's brother
(d) Standing Bear's killer

2. What event caused problems for the Indians who were living in the Black Hills?
(a) Gold was discovered
(b) A train is built through the Black Hills
(c) Some of the Indians started raiding white settlements
(d) General Custer decides to start arresting Indians

3. Where did Kintpuash's tribe live until after 1850?
(a) Northern California
(b) Utah
(c) Nevada
(d) Idaho

4. What Indian tribe lived in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado?
(a) The Utes
(b) The Comanches
(c) The Crow
(d) The Blackfoot

5. What name is Kintpuash usually known by?
(a) Hooker Jim
(b) Canby
(c) Captain Jack
(d) Ely Parker

6. What Kiowa chief eventually leads the tribe off of the reservation?
(a) Kicking Bird
(b) Ten Bears
(c) Crazy Horse
(d) Sitting Bull

7. How many soldiers survived Custer's Last Stand?
(a) 0
(b) 10
(c) 25
(d) 2

8. Twice the Nez Perces tried to move where?
(a) Montana
(b) Oregon
(c) Canada
(d) Utah

9. Eventually the remaining Cheyennes are allowed to move to a reservation on what River?
(a) The Missouri River
(b) The Platte River
(c) The Powder River
(d) The Tongue River

10. What Kiowa chief counsels to stay on the reservation?
(a) Ten Bears
(b) Sitting Bull
(c) Crazy Horse
(d) Kicking Bird

11. Who launches a campaign to move the Utes all the way to the Indian territory?
(a) Vickers
(b) Sutton
(c) Meeker
(d) Denver

12. When does Geronimo die?
(a) 1898
(b) 1894
(c) 1900
(d) 1904

13. Where does Sitting Bull go in defiance of the US government?
(a) Utah
(b) Idaho
(c) Red Cloud's reservation
(d) Canada

14. In what tribe was Hooker Jim a leader?
(a) Sioux
(b) Modoc
(c) Nez Perce
(d) Mohican

15. Where does Crazy Horse surrender his tribe?
(a) Fort Laramie
(b) Fort Robinson
(c) Fort Snelling
(d) Fort Donnelson

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the Utes finally placed in 1881?

2. Where do Santana and Big Tree go to attend peace talks?

3. Of the 3,700,000 buffalo killed from 1872 to 1874 how many were killed by the Indian tribes?

4. In 1873 why does Captain Jack decide to fight the white soldiers?

5. In what year was the last peace conference held, before the battle of the Little Big Horn?

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