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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 1 : Chapter 1, War & Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age did most Sioux boys participate in their first tribal hunt?
(a) Twelve or thirteen.
(b) Ten or eleven.
(c) Fourteen to fifteen.
(d) Sixteen to seventeen.

2. Who said to give the Indian "a love for exclusive property"?
(a) Vermont lawyer, Thomas Farnham.
(b) President Andrew Jackson.
(c) Secretary of War, Henry Knox.
(d) Founding father, Samuel Adams.

3. In 1854, who owned the trading house near Fort Laramie?
(a) Francis Parkman.
(b) Henry Hawk.
(c) Jim Bordeaux.
(d) John Grattan.

4. How old was Custer when he graduated from the Academy and started his first paying job?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Sixteen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most important subject at West Point when Custer attended?

2. What are the Lance Owners?

3. What was the estimated number of buffalo on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century?

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

5. During the time period of this book, what trees were common along streams on the Great Plains ?

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