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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname did Crazy Horse go by as a child?
(a) Curly.
(b) Crazy Horse.
(c) Little Warrior.
(d) Chips.

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

3. In Chapter 10, who says, "it looks like treason" about a document?
(a) Captain Custer.
(b) General Smith.
(c) General McClellan.
(d) Fernando Wood.

4. When did Custer become a Major General?
(a) May, 1864.
(b) January, 1865.
(c) July, 1863.
(d) September, 1864.

5. Where did Crazy Horse and other warriors go to sing or boast of bravery?
(a) Kiva.
(b) Chief's lodge.
(c) The akicita lodge.
(d) Arrow Creek.

6. At what ages did Custer and Crazy Horse become recognized leaders?
(a) 23 and 24.
(b) 22 and 23.
(c) 29 and 30.
(d) 24 and 25.

7. Who did Custer vote for in the 1864 election for president?
(a) It's unknown.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) McClellan.
(d) Grant.

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

9. Who was mortally wounded from Custer's charge against the Confederates at Yellow Tavern?
(a) Jeb Stuart.
(b) Phil Sheridan.
(c) Wesley Merritt.
(d) Robert E. Lee.

10. The Black Hills were known to the Sioux as a holy place called ______________.
(a) Pa Sapa.
(b) Koyas.
(c) Sioko.
(d) Bear Butte.

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

12. In Chapter 7, what wars are cited as wars that Custer taught about?
(a) French and American Revolutions.
(b) All European wars.
(c) Mexican and Peloponnesian.
(d) French and Indian War.

13. What was the estimated number of buffalo on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century?
(a) 2.5 million.
(b) 75 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 750,000.

14. In Chapter 3, what aspect of Sioux life would Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, have called the "science of the concrete"?
(a) Visions.
(b) Storytelling.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Animals as teachers.

15. Who went along with Crazy Horse on night time raids of the settlers in Chapter 9?
(a) Young Man Afraid.
(b) Little Big Man.
(c) Hump.
(d) He Dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the WPPA?

2. Between Custer and Crazy Horse, who came from a modest background, according to Chapter 12?

3. In what year was George Armstrong Custer born?

4. After what skirmish did Custer call the Civil War a "Glorious War"?

5. At age ten, Custer went to live with his half-sister and her new husband who lived in __________.

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