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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Captain Jack move his tribe?
(a) The California lava beds
(b) Death Valley
(c) The Canyonlands
(d) The Utah salt flats

2. What item of clothing are followers of the Ghost Dance supposed to possess?
(a) Ghost shirts
(b) Ghost shoes
(c) Ghost gloves
(d) Ghost hats

3. What happens to Standing Bear when he refuses to sign a treaty with the government?
(a) He is killed by another Indian
(b) He is put in prison
(c) He has to walk home which is 500 miles away
(d) He is killed by a guard

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

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

6. Where do Santana and Big Tree go to attend peace talks?
(a) Fort Laramie
(b) St. Louis
(c) Washington
(d) Fort Richardson

7. What is the name of the most famous Ute chief?
(a) Lone Pine
(b) Chief Joseph
(c) Ouray the Arrow
(d) Little Bull

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

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

10. Dull Knife decides to leave the reservation to go to the reservation where what Chief now resides?
(a) Chief Joseph
(b) Red Cloud
(c) Sitting Bull
(d) Crazy Horse

11. In 1904 what caused the death of Chief Joseph?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Starvation
(c) A broken heart
(d) He was killed by another Indian

12. Who negotiates with Geronimo for his surrender?
(a) Meeker
(b) Bent
(c) Crook
(d) Vickers

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

14. The future of the Ute nation was greatly effected by what ?
(a) The printed media
(b) The end of the civil war
(c) A poor court system
(d) The absence of an Indian policy

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Indian agent who develops a plan to move the Utes to a reservation?

2. In what tribe was Kintpuash a chief?

3. Who is Big Snake?

4. What Indian chief leads a raid that ends in killings at Fort Richardson?

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

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