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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sitting Bull die?
(a) He is arrested and shot by Indian officers
(b) He commits suicide
(c) He is hanged for war crimes
(d) He dies in a drunken stuper

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

3. Who is Victorio?
(a) The Mexican who captures Geronimo
(b) A Comanche chief
(c) Victorio is another name for Geronimo
(d) An Apache leader

4. What tribe abused the Modoc tribe?
(a) The Nez Perce
(b) The Klamath
(c) The Sioux
(d) The Apache

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

6. In 1873 why does Captain Jack decide to fight the white soldiers?
(a) To protect his sacred homeland
(b) To protect Hooker Jim
(c) To protect his sister
(d) The soldiers had killed his family

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

8. What Indian chief leads a raid that ends in killings at Fort Richardson?
(a) Lone Wolf
(b) Big Tree
(c) Kicking Bird
(d) Santana

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

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

11. In 1877 the Nez Perces defeat the soldiers at what battle?
(a) The Battle of the Washita
(b) The Battle of Wounded Knee
(c) The battle of White Bird Canyon
(d) The Battle of the Rosebud

12. What does Captain Jack do to Canby?
(a) Gives him to Hooker Jim
(b) Kidnaps him
(c) Turns him over to renegade indians
(d) Kills him

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

14. In what year was the last peace conference held, before the battle of the Little Big Horn?
(a) 1866
(b) 1870
(c) 1875
(d) 1890

15. What are the Kiowa's forced to do by the white soldiers?
(a) Turn in their family members who are warriors
(b) Speak English
(c) Farm
(d) Hunt buffalo for white settlers

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1885 who joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?

2. In what tribe was Kintpuash a chief?

3. Twice the Nez Perces tried to move where?

4. What event caused problems for the Indians who were living in the Black Hills?

5. Who is the founder of the Ghost Dance religion?

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