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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Part 4 : Chapter 1, 1873 & 1874.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 20, what two Sioux leaders were jealous of each other?
(a) Sitting Bull and Red Cloud.
(b) Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
(c) Red Cloud and Spotted Tail.
(d) Young Man Afraid and Old Man Afraid.

2. One of the boys who listened to Crazy Horse tell stories became a famous holy man. Who was it?
(a) Black Elk.
(b) Black Kettle.
(c) Fool Crow.
(d) Geronimo.

3. What was Carrington's Achilles' heel?
(a) Horses.
(b) Poor commanding officers.
(c) Need for wood.
(d) Need for water.

4. Who does the author credit with giving Custer his first big break in Chapter 10?
(a) General Smith.
(b) General Burnside.
(c) General Lee.
(d) General McClellan.

5. According to Chapter 13, what was the first financial offer that the government made to Plains tribes?
(a) $25,000 annuities.
(b) $15,000 annuities.
(c) $10,000 annuities.
(d) $20,000 annuities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Custer meet on Thanksgiving evening in 1862?

2. What was the first banking house to fail in 1873?

3. According to the author, who has written the definitive biography of George Custer?

4. Who did Crazy Horse fall in love with around the time he turned twenty-one years old?

5. Who was placed in charge of the Department of the Mississippi?

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