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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Roman Nose specifically refuse to meet with?
(a) General Custer
(b) General Sheridan
(c) General Taylor
(d) General Sherman

2. In 1865 the US government sends what group to the Missouri river basin?
(a) A peace commission
(b) General Sherman's army
(c) New soldiers fresh from the Civil War
(d) A congressional task force

3. What large group of Indians lived about a thousand miles north of the Navajo?
(a) The Comanche
(b) the Ute
(c) The Cheyenne
(d) The Santee Sioux

4. Where are most of the warring Sioux at this time?
(a) Along the Mississippi river
(b) Along the Arkansas river
(c) Along the Powder river
(d) Along the Colorado river

5. The Navajo said of one white man, "his name reaches the sky." Who does this refer to?
(a) George Custer
(b) William Sherman
(c) William Sheridan
(d) Kit Carson

Short Answer Questions

1. The chiefs are asked to come and meet with yet another white general to talk about peace, who is this person?

2. Cochise dies in what year?

3. After a treaty meeting between US soldiers and Cheyennes chief's this man said, " I felt myself in the presence of superior beings:"

4. What is the name of a new road through Red Cloud's country?

5. Donehogawa's "Christian name"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Major Wynkoop important in this story?

2. Why is General George Crook important in the history of Indian affairs?

3. What does General Hancock predict will lead to more whites intruding on Indian territory?

4. Briefly summarize Little Crow's War.

5. Who is Standing Bear?

6. Why did Columbus call Native Americans "Indios"?

7. Why is Wounded Knee significant?

8. What ultimately happens to Little Crow?

9. Briefly describe what caused the peace to breakdown between the Indians in the Black Hills and the whites in 1874.

10. Why did Red Cloud also travel to New York City?

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