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

2. Where does Roman Nose die?
(a) Little Big Horn River
(b) Washita River
(c) Powder River
(d) Arikaree Valley

3. How long does Red Cloud's war last?
(a) About 1 month
(b) About 6 months
(c) About 2 years
(d) About 10 years

4. What important document did Donehogawa write?
(a) The treaty with the Sioux
(b) The surrender terms at Appomattox
(c) The treaty that ended Black Hawk's war
(d) The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War

5. In 1871 what Apache chief is killed?
(a) Geronimo
(b) Mangas Colorado
(c) Eskiminzin
(d) Cochise

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose comment became the famous phrase, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?

2. Cochise finally reaches an agreement with what US General?

3. What causes the Santee Sioux to want to leave the reservation?

4. What event brought in an unexpected influx of white men to Colorado in 1858?

5. What event in January of 1863 causes Cochise to go back on the war path?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Kit Carson different from other soldiers who deal with the Navajos?

2. Briefly summarize Little Crow's War.

3. Who is the last of the Apache Chiefs?

4. How does the way Red Cloud deals with the Sawyer party contrast with the intentions of General Connor?

5. Why was the way that Red Cloud traveled to Washington so ironic?

6. Why is Hancock relieved of his command?

7. Why was the election of U. S. Grant seen as a good thing for in plight of the American Indians?

8. What turned Cochise from a peaceful Indian to a notorious renegade?

9. Briefly explain why Kicking Bird is important?

10. What is Indian agent Meeker's solution for the Ute Indians?

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