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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 father
(b) Standing Bear's killer
(c) Standing Bear's Son
(d) Standing Bear's brother

2. Standing Bear is a chief for what tribe?
(a) Sioux
(b) Blackfoot
(c) Nez Perces
(d) Poncas

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

4. In 1885 who joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Black Hawk
(c) Chief Joseph
(d) Geronimo

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

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

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

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

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

10. When captured, what does Hooker Jim offer to do?
(a) Turn Captain Jack over to the soldiers
(b) Lead his tribe back to the reservation
(c) Serve as a scout for the soldiers
(d) Help round up other indian tribes

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

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

13. The Cheyennes are moved to what fort?
(a) Fort Connor
(b) Fort Robinson
(c) Fort Wise
(d) Fort Reno

14. Where does Sitting Bull go after Custer's Last Stand?
(a) The Black Hills
(b) Yellowstone
(c) The Grand Canyon
(d) The state of Idaho

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sitting Bull die?

2. What tribe abused the Modoc tribe?

3. The Kiowas and Comanches go to what state to kill whites?

4. How does Geronimo avoid being caught by US soldiers?

5. Who orders Standing Bear to take his tribe to the Indian territory?

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