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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 1 : Chapter 1, Chapters 5, 6 & 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What more than tripled in Ohio from 1828 to 1850?
(a) Newspapers and periodicals.
(b) Population.
(c) Towns.
(d) Railroads.

2. According to Chapter 4, what was central to life for a Sioux male?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Vision quest.
(c) Being a warrior.
(d) Making the first kill.

3. How did Crazy Horse spend his teenage years according to Chapter 7?
(a) Seeking a vision.
(b) Observing white soldiers.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Becoming a warrior.

4. Why did Crazy Horse most likely not get the scalp of his first human kill?
(a) He was injured.
(b) He did not have a scalping knife.
(c) He refused to scalp anyone.
(d) He found out it was a woman.

5. According to a letter Custer wrote to his sister, what percentage of students at West Point failed?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Thirty-five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose life was more controlled by time, according to Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 2, the author writes that Americans worked so much that work became ____________.

3. According to the author in Chapter 7, why is Custer's culture more productive than Crazy Horse's?

4. When did Custer enter West Point Military Academy?

5. How much did the leather cap that West Point cadets were required to wear weigh?

(see the answer key)

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