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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Chief Santana die?
(a) He jumps from a prison hospital window
(b) He dies of old age on the reservation
(c) He is killed by Lone Wolf
(d) He is killed in a raid on Fort Richardson

3. Who is the founder of the Ghost Dance religion?
(a) Wovoka
(b) Red Cloud
(c) Sitting Bull
(d) Kicking Bear

4. What happens when the US soldiers confront two Kiowa chiefs, Santana and Lone Wolf?
(a) They kill 50 soldiers
(b) They are immediately arrested
(c) They retreat to the Badlands
(d) They are killed

5. In 1863, to where were the Nez Perces moved?
(a) Colorado
(b) Montana
(c) Wyoming
(d) Idaho

6. How does Geronimo avoid being caught by US soldiers?
(a) He holds settlers as hostages
(b) He moves into deep canyons
(c) Te moves to Mexico
(d) He surrenders to an Indian agent

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

8. In 1894 where does Geronimo go to live?
(a) Fort Robinson
(b) Fort Snelling
(c) Levenworth Prison
(d) Fort Sill

9. What ruling does a court make concerning Standing Bear?
(a) That he should be executed
(b) That he is a person like any other citizen
(c) That he can run for office
(d) That he has no standing in court

10. When Santana and Big Tree are arrested who negotiates their release?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Red Cloud
(c) Lone Wolf
(d) Kicking Bird

11. Who orders Standing Bear to take his tribe to the Indian territory?
(a) General Sherman
(b) Three Stars Crook
(c) Indian agent Kemple
(d) General Sheridan

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

13. The Kiowas and Comanches go to what state to kill whites?
(a) South Dakota
(b) Texas
(c) Kansas
(d) Colorado

14. Who is the Indian agent who develops a plan to move the Utes to a reservation?
(a) Sutton
(b) Stuart
(c) Denver
(d) Meeker

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Little Wolf's tribe is taken to what fort?

2. What Kiowa chief counsels to stay on the reservation?

3. What happens to Standing Bear when he refuses to sign a treaty with the government?

4. How many soldiers survived Custer's Last Stand?

5. The future of the Ute nation was greatly effected by what ?

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